A Day Out

A Day Out

50 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Dec. 24, 1972

Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .

A Day Out

50 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Dec. 24, 1972

A Day Out
Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers BBC
Original title A Day Out
Directors Stephen Frears
Writers Alan Bennett

Cast

David Waller

as Mr. Shuttleworth

James Cossins

as Mr. Shorter

Philip Locke

as Gregory Wilkins

John Normington

as Arthur Ackroyd

Brian Glover

as Henry Boothroyd

Paul Shane

as Baldring

Dave Hill

as Eric Gibson

Don McKillop

as Mr. Tetley

Bernard Wrigley

as Ernest Tetley

Paul Greenwood

as Edgar Appleton

Paul Rosebury

as Gerald Cross

Helen Fraser

as Mrs. Ackroyd

Maggie Jones

as Mrs. Shorter

Anna Wing

as Landlady

Sharon Campbell

as Pretty Girl, Connie

Rosalind Elliot

as Plain Girl, Luisa

Jane Wood

as Wife

Paul Luty

as Husband

Fred Feast

as Gamekeeper

Dorothy Reynolds

as Florence's Mother

Anthony Andrews

as Florence's Brother

George Fenton

as Florence's Brother

Virginia Nicholson

as Florence