Angels Are So Few

Angels Are So Few

Angels Are So Few

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Angels Are So Few

1970

1h 3m

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Drama

TV Movie

Overview

This neat, intense drama, labelled “a fable for television”, stars Tom Bell as the scruffy, childlike Michael Biddle, who is invited in from the cold of a suburban street by sexually frustrated, bored housewife Cynthia, played by Christine Hargreaves. He declares that he’s an angel, and Cynthia needs an angel, but in a way Michael fears...

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Cast & Crew

11 members

Acting

Tom Bell

Unknown Role

Tom Bell

Acting

Christine Hargreaves

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Christine Hargreaves

Acting

Susan Richards

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Acting

Erik Chitty

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Erik Chitty

Acting

Barry Cookson

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Acting

Beryl Cooke

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Godfrey James

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Godfrey James

Acting

John Glyn-Jones

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John Glyn-Jones

Directing

Kenneth Ives

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Denise Buckley

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Denise Buckley

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Dorothea Rundle

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