Gas and Candles

Aug 1, 1991

0h 59m

★ 0.0

Overview

Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.

Genres

Comedy

TV Movie

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Cast

Betty

Edna Doré

Bill

Bert Parnaby

Tom

Leslie Sands

Politician

Simon Oates

Journalist

Richard Braine

Superintendent Benson

Rod Culbertson

Constable Davis

Mark Lewis Jones

Assassin

Kenneth Bryans

Bus Driver

Freddie Earlle

Mrs Betchley

Patricia Kane

Tom's Wife

Elspeth Cameron

Girl in Chemist Shop

Rachel Boyd

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