Home Before Midnight

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Home Before Midnight
"Home Before Midnight" DVD cover.jpg
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Directed by Pete Walker
Written by Murray Smith
Michael Armstrong
Story byPete Walker
Produced byPete Walker
Starring James Aubrey
Alison Elliott
Mark Burns
Juliet Harmer
Richard Todd
CinematographyPeter Jessop
Edited byAlan Brett
Music by Jigsaw
Ray Russell [1]
Production
company
Peter Walker (Heritage)
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release date
  • 18 October 1979 (1979-10-18)(UK)
Running time
111 minutes [2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

Home Before Midnight is a 1979 British sexploitation drama film [3] directed and produced by Pete Walker, written by Murray Smith, and starring James Aubrey, Alison Elliott and Richard Todd. [4]

Contents

Plot

The film is set in London and follows Mike Beresford, a 28-year-old [5] songwriter [4] who is charged with statutory rape after having sex with a 14-year-old girl. [6]

Cast

Production

The soundtrack for the film, excluding incidental music provided by Ray Russell [1] , was written and performed by British band Jigsaw. [8] [9] These songs were later released on a soundtrack album. [10]

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "After Pete Walker's series of energetic horror shockers, this cautionary tale proves limp and deathly slow-moving. Quite lacking in a sense of emotional involvement, and notably confused in its view of the social mores of Outer London, the film seems bafflingly to miss its mark at every level. Inter alia, it asks us to accept that a teenage girl would be embarrassed at addressing a twenty-six-year-old woman by her first name, that a TV interview would be transmitted complete with lubricious remarks about a third party, and that during a High Court trial witnesses would be permitted to stand idly chatting in the shadow of the dock." [11]

References

  1. 1 2 "Home before Midnight (1978) - Credits | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Home before Midnight (1978) - Release | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  3. ↑ Sweet (2005 , p. 284)
  4. 1 2 "Home before Midnight (1978) | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Bowker's Complete Video Directory. Vol. 1–4. R. R. Bowker Publishing. 1992. p. 466. ISBN   9780835237666.
  6. ↑ Sweet (2005 , p. 254): "In Pete Walker’s Home before Midnight (1979), [Richard Todd] is a lawyer arguing that a relationship between a twentysomething songwriter and a fourteen-year-old girl does not necessarily constitute a case of statutory rape."
  7. ↑ "Home before Midnight (1978) - Cast | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  8. ↑ Perrone, Pierre (23 October 2011). "Clive Scott: Keyboard-player, singer and songwriter with the Seventies pop group Jigsaw". Independent.co.uk . Archived from the original on 6 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "Home before Midnight (1978) | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014.
  10. ↑ "Home Before Midnight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". Amazon. 6 December 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  11. ↑ "Home Before Midnight". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 46 (540): 196. 1 January 1979. ProQuest   1305834270.

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