The Cause
1981
70 minutes
Overview
"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley 's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.
Top Cast
Jimmy Jewel
George Harley - England 1980
Andrew Fell
George Harley - Spain 1936
David Suchet
Reger
Tony Caunter
Dolly
Clive Merrison
Rennie
Bill Buffery
Conway
Elizabeth Spriggs
Olive James
Tim Wylton
Roberts
Eamon Boland
Monroe
Elizabeth Romilly
Elizabeth
Kelvin Spooner
Karl
Jonathan Burn
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