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Paper Roses

8.0 52 mins Drama   TV Movie   1971
Granada Television  
Director(s): Barry Davis

Release Date: 13 Sun, Jun 1971

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.

Casts of Paper Roses

Bill Maynard

as Clarence Hubbard

Donald Gee

as John Chart

Aimée Delamain

as Mrs Hubbard

John Carson

as Joe

Dudley Jones

as The Critic

Desmond Perry

as Harold Bladdy

Joe Gladwin

as Messenger

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