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An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.

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Starring:
Albert Finney as Sir

Tom Courtenay as Norman

Edward Fox as Oxenby

Zena Walker as Her Ladyship

Eileen Atkins as Madge

Michael Gough as Frank Carrington

Cathryn Harrison as Irene

Betty Marsden as Violet Manning

Sheila Reid as Lydia Gibson

Lockwood West as Geoffrey Thornton

Donald Eccles as Mr. Godstone

Llewellyn Rees as Horace Brown

Guy Manning as Benton

Anne Mannion as Beryl

Kevin Stoney as C. Rivers Lane

Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Goldcrest Films International, World Film Services

Filmed: 1983 - Released: 1983

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