The Communists
Comedy
The Revolution Should Have Been Televised
Manfield, South Yorkshire, 1984. Out-of-work steelworker-turned- radical revolutionary Joe Starkhill and his band of comrades seize the Town Hall and take the Mayor, her driver, a security guard and a civil servant hostage - declaring the start of a socialist revolution in Britain. But when a faulty phone line prevents them from alerting the local newspaper and TV station, and the police write them off as a hoax, it is only when one of the hostages fails to return home for dinner, that the alarm is raised and Inspector John Machin is dispatched to the Town Hall to investigate - but it's not long before the building is surrounded by the press, police and public, turning Starkhill and the Revolutionaries into a media sensation.
- Director
- Simon Glass
- Writer
- Simon Glass
- Language
- English
Cast
William Fox
Inspector John Machin
Richard Galloway
Comrade Robbie Roy Galloway
Thanasis Manitarellis
Comrade Dean Mavros
Simon Moore
Sergeant Simon Sergeant
James Osman
Comrade George Jimi Hamilton
Simon Moore
Sergeant Steve Sergeant
James Underwood
Comrade Anthony Navarro
David Kendra
News Presenter
Andre Gwilliam
Civil Servant
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