The Dresser (1983)
Rating: 6.8/10
Duration: 118 min
Genres: Drama,
Director(s): Peter Yates,
Description:
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Cast
- Albert Finney as Sir
- Michael Gough as Frank Carrington
- Edward Fox as Oxenby
- Eileen Atkins as Madge
- Tom Courtenay as Norman
- Zena Walker as Her Ladyship
- 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 Blackman as Beryl
- Kevin Stoney as C. Rivers Lane