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    Evacuees, The (1975)

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    This television play was broadcast on BBC2 on 5 March 1975. It was written by Jack Rosenthal (he won a BAFTA for it) and directed by Alan Parker (his first full-length feature).

    A group of Jewish boys from a working-class area of Manchester are evacuated to Lytham St Annes near Blackpool during the early years of WWII.

    Neville (Steven Serember) and Danny (Gary Carp) Miller are billeted with the middle-aged Graham’s and are badly treated from the outset – Mrs Graham (Margery Mason) steals the kosher food which their mother (Maureen Lipman) sends to them and the boys are forced to eat pork sausages.

    The two boys resolve to keep their unhappiness from their put-upon mother but when she eventually discovers how they are being treated she takes them both home.

    The story is told largely through the eyes of the boys, meaning we also get several scenes based around the older boy’s picture of a woman in a swimsuit and an escape sequence set to the strains of the Dick Barton theme, in which the boys wear one roller-skate and one shoe each.

    A restored print was broadcast on BBC4 on 16 September 2020.

    Grandma Miller
    Margery Withers
    Neville Miller
    Steven Serember
    Danny Miller
    Gary Carp
    Sarah Miller
    Maureen Lipman
    Louis Miller
    Ray Mort
    Mrs Graham
    Margery Mason
    Mr Goldstone
    Ian East
    Wilhelm Schwartz
    Aubrey Edwards
    Cyril Winkler
    Michael Marcus
    Sidney Zuckerman
    Paul Besterman
    Merton
    Laurence Cohen
    Workman
    Bob West

    Director
    Alan Parker

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