The Cause (1981)

0.0/10 70 min Drama War TV Movie

Overview

"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley 's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.

Cast

Jimmy Jewel

George Harley - England 1980

David Suchet

Reger

Tony Caunter

Dolly

Clive Merrison

Rennie

Elizabeth Spriggs

Olive James

Tim Wylton

Roberts

Eamon Boland

Monroe

Jonathan Burn

Spanish guide

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