We Never Do What They Want

We Never Do What They Want — Plot

An everyday story of Alternative Society folk, beginning in 1969. It traced the developing relationship of three people from then until present 1978. Frank, a radical social worker just out of mental hospital after a nervous breakdown, was being nursed back to health by Linda, a hairdresser, in the absence of his 'girl friend. Joanna, on a social work project. By the second scene. Frank and Linda were married with a baby daughter, and Frank had opted for a cushy teaching job in a middle class school and even betrayed his Left-wing idealism to the point of joining the Labour Party.

• Release date
• May 16, 1978
• Runtime
• 56 min
• Director
• Moira Armstrong

We Never Do What They Want — Cast

Paola Dionisotti Joanne

L

Louise Hall-Taylor Linda

H

Harry Meacher Harry Simon Rouse Frank