Moonlight on the Highway (movie)

Moonlight on the Highway (movie)

  • User score: 2
  • Production country: United Kingdom
  • Producer: James MacTaggart
  • Production companies: LWT, Kestrel Productions
  • Genre: Drama, TV Movie
  • Release date: 4/12/1969
  • Run time: 52 min.

Movie description

Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.

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Ian Holm

Ian Holm

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Anthony Bate

Anthony Bate

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Deborah Grant

Deborah Grant

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Robin Wentworth

Robin Wentworth

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Frederick Peisley

Frederick Peisley

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