Movielogr
Akenfield (1974)
Directed by Peter Hall
Overview
As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family’s past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.
Length 98 minutes
Actors
Stanley Baxter | Ronald Blythe | Ethel Branton | Lyn Brooks | Garrow Shand | Peggy Cole | Barbara Tilney | Ida Page | Ted Dedman | Mollie Dedman | Charlie Cornish | Charlie Whiting | Robin Buckingham | Alan Wright | Mary Hammond | F.O. Staddon | Bob Wilson | Reg Hall | Peter Tuddenham | Clifford Arbon | Ernie Cole | Ray Cornish | Victoria Peacock | Barry Martin | Neil Scopes | John Simpson | Ron Wood | Sidney Bedwell | Andy Chenery | Allan Cole | David Cole | John Meek | Walter Whatling | Roger Clark | Sean Wood | Wilfred Frost | Roger Burroughes | Jonathan Fox | Monty Hale | Phyllis Grout | Mark Thorpe | Fred Collins | Lucy Dedman | David Dedman | Helen Tydeman | Arthur Smith | Margaret Allen | Erica Zant-Boer | Violet Smith | Ena Bower | Claire Bateson | Kenneth Runnacles | Sarah Noakes | Romy Jacob | Cecil Barrell | Eunice Carpenter | Gladys de Brisay | Wendy Keable | Joan Piper