Double Bill

1969

The Compartment and Playmates by Johnny Speight

Drama

1h 10m
September 26, 1969 · United Kingdom

Overview

In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two, Playmates, he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: September 26, 1969
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: BBC
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded