Paper Roses

Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.

• Release date
• June 13, 1971
• Runtime
• 52 min
• Genres
• Drama, TV Movie
• Director
• Barry Davis

Cast

Bill Maynard Clarence Hubbard Donald Gee John Chart Aimée Delamain Mrs Hubbard John Carson Joe

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Dudley Jones The Critic

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Desmond Perry Harold Bladdy Joe Gladwin Messenger