Cider with Rosie (1998)Director:Charles Beeson |
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Cider with Rosie (1998)Director:Charles Beeson |
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Juliet Stevenson | ... |
Annie Lee
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Dashiell Reece | ... |
Laurie Lee, as a boy
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Joe Roberts | ... |
Laurie Lee, as a teen
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David Troughton | ... |
Uncle Sid
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Margery Withers | ... | ||
Freda Dowie | ... | ||
Grant Masters | ... |
Father Lee
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Robert Lang | ... |
The Squire
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Emily Mortimer | ... |
Miss Flynn
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Hugh Lloyd | ... |
Joseph Brown
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Katharine Page | ... |
Hannah Brown
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Lia Barrow | ... |
Rosie Burdock
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Sally Beer | ... |
Older Jo
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Amanda Boxer | ... |
Miss Biggs
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Amanda Brewster | ... |
Marjorie
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In 1975, the BBC made a film version of Cider with Rosie, also approved by Laurie Lee, and featuring Rosemary Leach as the mother. The earlier production is a triumph compared to this one, with a wonderful semi-impressionistic view of this dramatisation of English village life after the first world war.
In the 1975 version, look for example at the final shot where we see the young Laurie passing the real life elderly Laurie. What a glorious touch! Fortunately I have the first version on tape (and now preserved on a DVD!).
This later version, sadly, is strictly run of the mill made-for-TV drama compared to the 1975 one, which was produced by Eileen Diss and scripted by Hugh Whitemore, 2 of the BBC's greatest!.