A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Peter Medak, 1972) was on free-to-air last night, so I watched that instead of a DVD. It seems to be the most notable piece by the playwright Peter Nichols, and is an example of what I stuff into the ‘social problem’ genre, as concerned with a couple of smartypants parents dealing with an almost braindead only child. Peter Medak has done a great deal of work since leaving Hungary after 1956, most of it for TV. He directed The Ruling Class (also 1972) with Peter O’Toole (and my cousin Coral Browne). Joe Egg is the kind of film I like, arty and open-ended, truthful. And it has Alan Bates in it (who also starred in An Englishman Abroad, John Schlesinger, 1983, opposite my cousin Coral Browne!)
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Peter Medak, 1972)
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