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Long Shot

0.0 84 mins Comedy   1978
Director(s): Maurice Hatton

Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and ‘name director’ Sam Fuller to shoot their Aberdeen-set oil-boom adventure ‘Gulf and Western’. Along the way, they encounter a plethora of filmmaking luminaries including Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Bill Forsyth and Alan Bennett.

Casts of Long Shot

Charles Gormley

as Charlie

Neville Smith

as Neville

Anne Zelda

as Anne

David Stone

as A Distributor

Ron Taylor

as American Director

Wim Wenders

as Another Director

Stephen Frears

as Biscuit Man

Jim Haines

as Professor of Sexual Politics

Maurice Bulbulian

as French-Canadian Director

William Forsythe

as Bille

Alan Bennett

as Neville's Doctor

Richard Demarco

as Gallery Owner

Sarah Boston

as TV Producer

Mel Calman

as Cartoonist

Susannah York

as An Actress

Dennis Selinger

as An Agent

Sanford Lieberson

as A Film Executive

John Boorman

as The Director

Jill Beck

as Director 'Scripts Ltd'

Mary Maddox

as Margo (voice)

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