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    Shillingbury Blowers, The (1979)

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    Cantankerous Dan Wicklow – “Old Saltie” to his friends – and his cronies in the local Shillingbury brass band resist the attempts by young Peter Higgins, a celebrity pop musician who has moved to the village with his wife Sally, to help improve the band in an English village, when Saltie resigns after some criticism.

    But with the band now working to rule can Peter actually win them over or are the days of the brass band doomed for good?

    This was the feature-length pilot for the successful series of village life episodes that followed in a quaint drama-sitcom series The Shillingbury Tales.

    The entire series (and this pilot film) was filmed on 16mm film and entirely on location. The village of Shillingbury is in reality, Aldbury in Hertfordshire.

    Peter Higgins
    Robin Nedwell
    Sally Higgins
    Diane Keen
    Saltie
    Trevor Howard
    Jake Smith
    Jack Douglas
    Reggie
    Sam Kydd
    Sam
    Eric Francis
    Harvey
    Joe Black
    Basil
    Tony Sympson
    Council Chairman
    John Le Mesurier
    Mr Meadows
    Patrick Newell
    Mrs Simpkins
    Diana King
    Mr Fennel
    Miles Anderson

    Director
    Val Guest

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