Movie
The Dresser
Overview
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Details
- Release date
- 1983-12-06
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Columbia Pictures
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Albert Finney as Sir
- Tom Courtenay as Norman
- Edward Fox as Oxenby
- Zena Walker as Her Ladyship
- Eileen Atkins as Madge
- Michael Gough as Frank Carrington
- Cathryn Harrison as Irene
- Betty Marsden as Violet Manning
- Sheila Reid as Lydia Gibson
- Lockwood West as Geoffrey Thornton
- Donald Eccles as Mr. Godstone
- Llewellyn Rees as Horace Brown
Crew
- Peter Yates - Director
- Ronald Harwood - Screenplay
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