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Christopher Morahan & Dennis Potter – ITV Saturday Night Theatre: Lay Down Your Arms (1970)

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As with LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR, the later re-working of this play, most of the action is set within the 1956 War Office in the midst of the Cold War and just prior to and contemporaneous with the Suez Crisis. Private Robert Hawk is the newly-arrived Russian language clerk. He is the son of a Yorkshire coalminer and a graduate of grammar school and of Oxford. He is doing his two years of national service. His job at the War Office is to assist the MI3 section in the translation of intercepted Russian documents on troop movements. Hawk is caught between his own working class roots and the upper middle class values and behaviours of the officers he works with. They mock him for his background, his immaturity and his intellectualism. He is also caught between his almost adolescent romantic idealisation of women as he sees them portrayed, for example, in his visit to the theatre to see Chekhov’s The Seagull and his equally adolescent sexual drives which lead him to consort with a prostitute for sexual release. He survives all this by inventing personalities for himself so that, in a pub and surrounded by football fanatics, he asserts his status by pretending to be (and convincing the fans that he actually is) the Russian national team goalkeeper. His deception fails when an old friend, Pete, comes into the pub and inadvertently unmasks him. To impress Pete that he holds an important position at the War Office, Hawk sets out to obtain a classified document but Pete fails to arrive at the rendezvous and the document is discarded.

Lay Down Your Arms [ITV Saturday Night Theatre] (Dennis Potter 1970).mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 12 min
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https://nitro.download/view/890BD51C6CAD839/Lay_Down_Your_Arms__ITV_Saturday_Night_Theatre__(Dennis_Potter_1970).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Jim O’Brien & Christopher Morahan – The Jewel in the Crown (1984)

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The Jewel in the Crown (1984) is a British television serial about the final days of the British Raj in India during World War II, based upon the Raj Quartet novels by Paul Scott.
Granada Television produced it for the ITV network.

IMDB:
The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that “their” time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape, and the consequences of this echo through the series. Questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Christopher Morahan – Old Times (1975)

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Synopsis:
‘Married couple Kate and Deeley are joined by Kate’s friend, Anna and talk of the past ensues. Although it is a past they have shared, their memories of it are not always the same.
An intimate three-character play about the capriciousness of memory and the jealousy of our beloved’s intangible past.’
– BFI

1.10GB | 1h 15mn | 740×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F50743E61AF9B2E/Old.Times.1975.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkv https://nitro.download/view/F036A0913349758/Old.Times.1975.DVDRip.x264.AC3.idx https://nitro.download/view/6CA8668E7EB30EF/Old.Times.1975.DVDRip.x264.AC3.sub

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English HoH

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Christopher Morahan – Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)

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Quote:
BRAND NEW 2K MASTER! Four thieves try to steal the Imperial Jewels of Russia! Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno (Marcello Mastroianni, Marriage Italian Style), a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family’s crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. He gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty (Rita Tushingham, The Knack… and How to Get It), to assist in his plot against Popov (Warren Mitchell, The Crawling Eye), the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit. Wonderfully directed by Christopher Morahan (Clockwise) and beautifully shot by Gerry Turpin (Seance on a Wet Afternoon, The Whisperers).

2.60GB | 1 h 42 min | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/1DBA6AEB66D74B4/Christopher_Morahan_-_(1968)_Diamonds_for_Breakfast.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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