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The Curse of Steptoe (2008)
Directed by Michael Samuels
Overview
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show ‘Steptoe and Son’. However, the show’s success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.
Length 67 minutes
Actors
Jason Isaacs | Phil Davis | Roger Allam | Clare Higgins | Burn Gorman | Rory Kinnear | Sophie Hunter | Zoe Tapper