Turn-up for Tony

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 30 min
  • Premiere: 1968. October 4.

A jobless Geordie shipyard worker escapes from his bleak existence into an imaginary life with the girl of his dreams, a salesgirl at a futuristic Pink Lane cigarette kiosk. This is a funny, bitter-sweet silent comedy, an odyssey through a Newcastle cityscape in transition from an industrial Tyneside to T Dan Smiths modernist vision of the city as a Brasilia of the North. Directed by Robert Tyrell, it is also a brilliant social document of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the 1960s.

Discover

Norman Mitchell

Policeman

Sheila Falconer

Tony's girlfriend

Ted Lune

Old man

Crew

Eric Coop

Cinematography

Directing

Robert Tyrell

Director