Turn-up for Tony

Comedy

Turn-up for Tony — Plot

A jobless Geordie shipyard worker escapes from his bleak existence into an imaginary life with the girl of his dreams, a salesgirl at a futuristic Pink Lane cigarette kiosk. This is a funny, bitter-sweet silent comedy, an odyssey through a Newcastle cityscape in transition from an industrial Tyneside to T Dan Smiths modernist vision of the city as a Brasilia of the North. Directed by Robert Tyrell, it is also a brilliant social document of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the 1960s.

• Release date
• October 4, 1968
• Runtime
• 30 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Robert Tyrell

Turn-up for Tony — Cast

Tony Tanner Tony Norman Mitchell Policeman

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Sheila Falconer Tony's girlfriend

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Ted Lune Old man