Long Shot

Long Shot

85 mins | Comedy | Nov. 17, 1978

A budding Scottish film producer tries to get his ambitious Aberdeen-set western financed, and while he attracts some major stars and directors to the film he finds that with their support come more and more script changes... Filmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking, with terrific cameos from Wim Wenders, Susannah York, Stephen Frears, Alan Bennett and John Boorman.

Long Shot

85 mins | Comedy | Nov. 17, 1978

Long Shot
A budding Scottish film producer tries to get his ambitious Aberdeen-set western financed, and while he attracts some major stars and directors to the film he finds that with their support come more and more script changes... Filmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking, with terrific cameos from Wim Wenders, Susannah York, Stephen Frears, Alan Bennett and John Boorman.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers
Original title Long Shot
Directors Maurice Hatton
Writers Eoin McCann, Maurice Hatton

Cast

Charles Gormley

as Charlie

Neville Smith

as Neville

Anne Zelda

as Anne

David Stone

as A Distributor

Ron Taylor

as American Director

Wim Wenders

as Another Director

Stephen Frears

as Biscuit Man

Jim Haines

as Professor of Sexual Politics

Maurice Bulbulian

as French-Canadian Director

William Forsythe

as Bille

Alan Bennett

as Neville's Doctor

Richard Demarco

as Gallery Owner

Sarah Boston

as TV Producer

Mel Calman

as Cartoonist

Susannah York

as An Actress

Dennis Selinger

as An Agent

Sanford Lieberson

as A Film Executive

John Boorman

as The Director

Jill Beck

as Director 'Scripts Ltd'

Mary Maddox

as Margo (voice)