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    Raging Moon, The (1971)

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    Bruce Pritchard (Malcolm McDowell) – a vigorous, healthy and randy young Northern lad with an enormous zest for life and a passion for football (soccer) and “birds” – is suddenly struck down by a disease he can’t even pronounce and finds himself paralysed from the waist down, confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, and suddenly alone in the world.

    His mother and father cannot have him in their apartment and his relatives do not want him.

    Resentful and bitter, he sets off for a nursing home for the handicapped in the south of England. There he finds he has nothing in common with the other inmates. He is sour, moody and disconsolate and his abrasive and cynical Northern ways are at odds with this genteel Southern establishment.

    He spends most of his time alone writing poetry and stories, and it is only when he meets fellow patient Jill Matthews (Nanette Newman), a frail polio victim also in a wheelchair, that he starts to build his life again.

    They fall in love and with the sale of one of his short stories, Bruce buys her an engagement ring and they begin making wedding plans.

    “I’m much nicer as a cripple,” he tells Jill during their first tender kiss – the result of some difficult manoeuvering of their wheelchairs.

    But outside forces once more deal a cruel blow to Bruce. Jill is taken to hospital with a cold and eventually dies.

    In the van on the way back to the home he involuntarily wets himself. He is told it doesn’t matter. But to Bruce, everything matters now. “If I don’t believe that,” he says, “I’ve had it.”

    Considering what a schmaltz-fest such a storyline could have produced, much of the film is admirably unsentimental. The relationship between Bruce and Jill is surprisingly honest and director Bryan Forbes (husband of star Nanette Newman) lets it speak for itself.

    Released in some markets as Long Ago, Tomorrow.

    Bruce Pritchard
    Malcolm McDowell
    Jill Matthews
    Nanette Newman
    Sarah
    Georgia Brown
    Uncle Bob
    Bernard Lee
    Rev. Corbett
    Gerald Sim
    Clarence Marlow
    Michael Flanders
    Matron
    Margery Mason
    Bill
    Barry Jackson
    Harold
    Geoffrey Whitehead
    Terry
    Christopher Chittell
    Bruce’s Father
    Jack Woolgar
    Bruce’s Mother
    Patsy Smart
    Dr Mathews
    Norman Bird
    Mrs Mathews
    Constance Chapman
    Geoffrey
    Michael Lees
    Mr Latbury
    Geoffrey Bayldon
    Gladys
    Theresa Watson
    Celia
    Sylvia Coleridge
    Hugh Collins
    Brook Williams
    Arnold Foster
    Richard Moore
    George
    George Hilsdon
    Margaret
    Nellie Hanham
    Alice
    Aimée Delamain
    Gladys’ Mother
    Anne Dyson
    Gladys’ Father
    Norman Tyrrell
    Mary
    Petra Markham
    Mrs Hetherington
    Winifride Shelley
    Mr Thomas
    Michael Nightingale

    Director
    Bryan Forbes

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