UK, 26 December 1994
98m
35mm film, colour, 4:3
Dolby, English
Series: Screen Two (1985-1998) – series 12, episode 1
A British fantasy television film directed by Renny Rye.
Plot Summary
American film producer James Boyce and his wife Amber move into a remote English country mansion, the location for the notorious British horror film Smoke Rings which was filmed there twenty years before. Amber’s mother, the actress Mandy Mason, had died after her appearing in the film and her memory is kept alive in the house by devoted fan, lawyer Henry Harris. Following a TV screening of Smoke Rings, Amber starts to succumb to the same schizophrenic illness that afflicted her mother and the plot of the movie starts to blur with reality.
Credits
Crew
Director: Renny Rye
BBC, Whistling Gypsy Production
Executive Producers: Mark Shivas, Ruth Caleb
Producers: Dennis Potter, Rosemarie Whitman
Associate Producer: Alison Barnett
Script: Dennis Potter
Novel: Moths by Rosalind Ashe
Director of Photography: Remi Adefarasin
Editor: Clare Douglas
Music: Christopher Gunning
Sound: Jeffrey Paget, John Pritchard
Costume Designer: James Keast
Production Designer: Gary Williamson
Cast
Jim Carter (Henry Harris)
Louise Germaine (Amber Boyce/Mandy Mason)
Brian Dennehy (James Boyce)
Colin Salmon (Bob Maclean)
Steven Mackintosh (Bertie)
Anna Cropper (Mrs Mofrey)
David Curtiz (Vic)
Lucinda Galloway (Ann Maclean)
Gerard Horan (policeman)
Anthony Pedley (Inspector)
Michael Gardiner (Sergeant)
Michael Poole (doctor)
Robert Putt (cabbie)
Georgine Anderson (old lady)
John Cater (old man)
Melanie Ramsay (Bertie’s girlfriend)
Stephen Greif (Johnny)
Geoffrey Larder (detective)
Mark Frost (Barney)
Kelly Moorhouse (child #1)
