An early classic of Black British cinema about the intriguing social dynamics that arise as a ten shilling note is passed around the black community. A student borrows ten bob from a white man and then in turn lends it to a natty musician. Later, when the student meets an upstanding member of the community he ignores the musician who is trying to return the note.
Up Next in Drama
-
The Servant
Despite Harold Pinter's fear that Joseph Losey would turn his play into 'a completely homosexual picture', The Servant stands as one of the great critiques of British social and sexual mores. Power relationships between the classes fuel a sexual subtext about dominance and submission which goes b...
-
Eclipse
A remote cliff-side house on the Scottish coast is the setting for Simon Perry’s atmospheric psychological thriller, barely seen since it was first screened. Tom Conti plays a bereaved brother troubled by memories of his deceased twin. A Christmas celebration with his brother’s widow and her son ...
