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The Raging Moon

Great British Icons • Drama, UR

In this sensitive and ground-breaking drama, Malcolm McDowell plays a passionate young man who has developed a degenerative disease. In despair he decamps to a home for disabled people where he meets a woman with polio (Nanette Newman) who instils him with hope, leading to a passionate relationship.

Tags
Disabled people
Cast
Malcolm McDowell Bruce Pritchard
Nanette Newman Jill Mathews
Bernard Lee Uncle Bob
Crew
Bryan Forbes director

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