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Lay Down Your Arms

6.0 73 mins Drama   TV Movie   1970
LWT   Kestrel Films  
Director(s): Christopher Morahan

Dennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing this play for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series. At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Russian invasion of Hungary, Private Bob Hawk reports to the London Intelligence Office where the strength of Soviet troops is under scrutiny.

Casts of Lay Down Your Arms

Nikolas Simmonds

as Private Hawk

Leonard Trolley

as Lt. Col. Bakeman

Peter Cellier

as Major Hissock

John Warner

as Major Wilson

Graham Armitage

as Major Timps

Ken Wayne

as Col. Feather

James Cairncross

as Julian

Julia Jones

as Mrs Hawk

Joby Blanshard

as Mr Hawk

George Layton

as Corporal May

Michael Cashman

as Pete

Tony Caunter

as Mick

David Webb

as Fred

John Levene

as Ernie

Renny Lister

as Tart

Tim Hardy

as Trepliov

John Bloomfield

as American Tourist

Tucker McGuire

as American Tourist's Wife

Will Stampe

as Londoner

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