Directed by: James MacTaggart
Stars: Anna Cropper, Amanda Walker, Julian Holloway
Language: English + Commentary (2nd track | Subtitles: English (embed)
(Commentary With William Fowler And Vic Pratt, Curators And Authors Of “The Bodies Beneath: The Flipside of British Film & Television”)
Country: Uk | Imdb Info | Ar: 4:3 | Brrip
Also known as: Play for Today S1 E9
Description: After a long-term relationship ends, Norah moves to a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly., if eccentric. She starts a flirtatious relationship with young gamekeeper, Rob. But events at a festival have her feeling manipulated. Only later, do the consequences of that relationship leave her trapped in a nightmare.
Preview
1.94GB | 79:41mins | 768×576 | mkv
https://tezfiles.com/file/32c59df4a080a/Robin.Redbreast.1970.mkv
Thanks so much for this piece of folk-horror, made 3 years before The Wicker Man with the same theme, pagan Harvest Ritual.
Screenplay was by novelist John Bowen, based on the actual case of Charles Walton, whose body was found on St Valentine’s Day 1945 in Lower Quinton, Warwickshire.
(Bowen also wrote the screenplay for another Play For Today available here at RL, ‘A Photograph’)
Highly recommended.
Thanks for that! Such a pity that the original broadcast/colour-version is lost forever … I’d love to see Anchoress (1993) by
Chris Newby – so hard to come by in Europe.