After a Lifetime

July 18, 1971

71 minutes

Ken Loach

Drama TV Movie

Overview

Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broadcast 18th July 1971). After a Lifetime is something of a neglected, social realist masterpiece that focuses on two brothers, brought together by the death of their father, reflecting on his life of militancy and political activism. At the time critic Nancy Banks Smith called it ‘brilliantly funny, and moving with a sort of subterranean rage’. Smith himself plays the older brother with a brilliant, raw emotion.

Movie Details

Release Date

July 18, 1971

Runtime

71 minutes

Director

Ken Loach

Production Companies

Kestrel Films

Cast

Neville Smith

Young Billy

Bill Dean

Uncle Sid

Peter Kerrigan

Uncle John

Johnny Gee

Frank

Len Annett

Joe Horrigon

Rosalind Elliot

Maureen

Jimmy Coleman

Aloysius

Joan Flood

Cissie

Joey Kaye

Mike

Sammy Sharples

Uncle Gus

Laidlaw Dalling

Doctor

Bert King

Undertaker

Pat Gillon

Mr Pimblett

Ernie Mack

Insurance Agent