Langrishe, Go Down

Langrishe, Go Down, the novel by Aidan Higgins (1966), was adapted for the screen by Harold Pinter, directed by David Jones, filmed for BBC Television in association with Raidió Teilifís Éireann, and first broadcast in September 1978 as a 90-minute BBC2's Play of the Week.^[1] On 17 July, 2002, Langrishe, Go Down was re-released as a theatrical 16mm feature film,^[2] after being shown in The Spaces Between the Words: A Tribute to Harold Pinter, by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, as part of the Harold Pinter Festival of the Lincoln Center Festival 2001, held at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York City, from 21 to 31 July 2001.^[3]

Credits

Screenplay: Harold Pinter, from the novel by Aidan Higgins
Director: David Jones
Original score: Carl Davis
Photography: Elmer Cossey
Designer: Roger Murray-Leach
Sound Recordist: Graham Hare

Cast

Imogen Langrishe: Judi Dench
Otto Beck: Jeremy Irons
Helen Langrishe: Annette Crosbie
Lily Langrishe: Susan Williamson
Maureen Layde: Margaret Whiting
Barry Shannon: Harold Pinter

Setting

The setting is a fading Irish mansion in the Kilkenny countryside, in the late 1930s, and also includes some locations in Dublin.

Plot synopsis

Three spinster sisters, Imogene (Dench), Helen (Crosbie), and Lily Langrishe (Williamson), lose their equanimity — and in the case of Imogene her virginity — when a mature German student (Jeremy Irons) rents lodging from them while he works on his thesis.

Home media

The film was released on DVD in Australia by MRA Entertainment.

Notes

^ Leslie Halliwell and Philip Purser (1986). Halliwell's Television Companion (3rd ed.). London: Grafton. ISBN 0-246-12838-0. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "Langrishe, Go Down (limited theatrical release)". Rotten Tomatoes. 17 July 2002. Retrieved 26 September 2008.
^ "Harold Pinter Festival". Lincoln Center Festival, New York, USA, 2001. HaroldPinter.org (Official Website). Archived from the original (Web) on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2008.

External links

Langrishe, Go Down at IMDb

[HalliwellPurser-1] Leslie Halliwell and Philip Purser (1986). Halliwell's Television Companion (3rd ed.). London: Grafton. ISBN 0-246-12838-0. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[RT-2] "Langrishe, Go Down (limited theatrical release)". Rotten Tomatoes. 17 July 2002. Retrieved 26 September 2008.

[HPFLC-3] "Harold Pinter Festival". Lincoln Center Festival, New York, USA, 2001. HaroldPinter.org (Official Website). Archived from the original (Web) on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2008.

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