UK, 1981
95m, 2610 metres
35mm film, Metrocolor, 2.35:1
Dolby (35mm prints), 70mm 6-Track (70mm prints), English
A British fantasy film directed by Alan Parker.
Plot Summary
The life and times of rock star Pink Floyd as he grows from emotionally damaged child to psychologically traumatised adult and becomes a strange messiah figure.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Director: Alan Parker
Goldcrest Films Ltd, MGM, Tin Blue
Executive Producer: Stephen O’Rourke
Producer: Alan Marshall
Associate Producer: Garth Thomas
Production Manager: David Wimbury
Unit Management: Peter Kohn
Production Coordinator: Sally Shewring
Script/Album: Roger Waters
1st Assistant Director: Ray Corbett
2nd Assistant Director: Kieron Phipps
3rd Assistant Director: Steve Harding
Animation Sequences Assistant Director: Gerald Scarfe
Continuity: Jenny Reid
Director of Photography: Peter Biziou
Camera Operators: David Garfath, John Stanier
Clapper Loaders: Jeremy Gee, Tony Brown
Focus Puller: Chris Tanner
Gaffers: John Tythe, Martin Evans, Ronnie Rampton
Best Boys: Jim Smart, Ray Meehan
Grip: Dennis Fraser
Camera Grips: Colin Manning, George Beavis
Rigger: Joe Finn
Stills: David Appleby
Grip and Lighting Equipment: Lee Lighting Ltd
Editor: Gerry Hambling
Assistant Editors: Clive Barrett, Jeremy Gibbs, Leonard Green, Robert Hambling
Music: Robert Ezrin, Pink Floyd (David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright)
Conductor/Orchestrator: Michael Kamen
Film Music Producer: James Guthrie
Music Producers: David Gilmour, Robert Ezrin, Roger Waters
Music Editor: Brian Lintern
Production Sound Mixer: Clive Winter
Sound Mixer: Gordon K. McCallum
Boom Operator: Ken Weston
Dubbing Mixers: Graham Hartstone, Nicholas Le Messurier
Re-Recording Mixer: Michael A. Carter
Sound Editor: Eddy Joseph
Sound Effects Editors: Alan Paley, Alan Pattillo
Costume Designer: Penny Rose
Wardrobe Master: John Hilling
Wardrobe Mistress: Pip Newbery
Wardrobe Assistant: Ken Crouch
Make Up: Paul Engelen, Peter Frampton
Hair Department Head: Martin Samuel
Hair: Barry Richardson
Special Effects: Ricky Farns, Martin Gutteridge, Garth Inns, Graham Longhurst, Effects Associates Ltd
Animation Sequence Designer: Gerald Scarfe
Animation Sequence Producer: Roger Waters
Key Animator: Mike Stuart
Animators: Angela Kovacs, Bill Hajee, Chris Caunter
Assistant Animator: Carol Slade
Background/Layout Artist: Alan Best
Checker: Steve Colwell
Paint Artist: Sandy Houston
Rostrum Camera Operator: Robert Edward Crawford
Animation Art Director: Jill Brooks
Production Designer: Brian Morris
Art Directors: Chris Burke, Clinton Cavers
Property Master: Dave Jordan
Property Buyer: Katie Kilroy
Props: Bernard Hearn, Martin Kingsley, Terry Perks
Construction Manager: Terry Apsey
Carpenter: Arnold Oke
Draper: John Wilson
Draughtsmen: Anthony Rimmington, Jim Morahan, John King
Production Accountant: Paul Cadiou
Choreographer: Gillian Gregory
Publicist: Allen Burry
Locations: London, England, UK; Olympic Stadium, Montréal, Québec, Canada; The Royal Masonic School, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Stunts: Greg Powell, Stuart St Paul
Casting: Celestia Fox
Casting (USA): Margery Simkin
Cast
Bob Geldof (Pink)
Christine Hargreaves (Pink’s mother)
James Laurenson (Pink’s father)
Eleanor David (Pink’s wife)
Kevin McKeon (young Pink)
Bob Hoskins (rock and roll manager)
David Bingham (little Pink)
Jenny Wright (American groupie)
Alex McAvoy (teacher)
Ellis Dale (English doctor)
James Hazeldine (lover)
Ray Mort (playground father)
Marjorie Mason (teacher’s wife)
Robert Bridges (American doctor)
Michael Ensign (hotel manager)
Marie Passarelli (Spanish maid)
Winston Rose (security guard)
Joanne Whalley, Nell Campbell, Emma Longfellow, Lorna Barton (groupies)
Rod Bedall, Peter Jonfield, Philip Davis, Gary Olsen (roadies)
Eddie Tagoe, Dennis Fletcher (minders)
Jonathan Scott (registrar)
Joanna Dickens, John Scott Martin (dancing teachers)
Marilyn Thomas, Brenda Cowling, Michael Burrell, Malcolm Rogers, John Broughton (teachers)
Jon Paul Morgan (housekeeper)
Albert Moses (janitor)
Vincent Wong, Mark Newman (paramedics)
Lucita Lijertwood, Betty Whelan (smash and grab ladies)
David Fleeshman (man on station)
Joanna Andrews, Diana King, Roger Kemp (wedding witnesses)
David Smythe, Keith Wray (Pink’s friends)
Roger Waters [man at wedding] *
Alternative Titles
Pink Floyd: A fal – Hungary
The Wall
Links
See also
The Wall: Live in Berlin (1990)
Includes extracts from
Puttin’ on the Dog (1944)
Extracts included in
I Love the ’80s Strikes Back (2003)
References
Periodicals
- Melody Maker 17 June 1982 – review
- Photoplay September 1982 p.22 – review
- Studio July/August 1988 p.21 – review (by Michel Rebichon)
- TV Times 7-13 May 1988 p.59 – television listing
- Video Viewer May 1983 – review
Newspapers
- Daily Mail 22 June 1982 – article
- Southampton Evening Echo 12 August 1982 – review
- The Sun 12 July 1982 – review
- The Sun 16 July 1982 – article
- The Sunday Mirror 1 August 1982 – review
Books
- The British Pop Music Film: The Beatles and Beyond by Stephen Glynn pp.138, 184-191, 199, 207, 209
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby p.281
- The Films of the Eighties by Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan p.437
- Horror and Science Fiction Films III by Donald C. Willis pp.301-302
- Rock-Film: In 450 film, trent’anni di Cinema & Rock by Paolo Belluso and Flavio Merkel p.167 – credits, note
