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Just Another Saturday
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Wikipedia article
'Just Another Saturday' is a 'Play For Today' (BBC) about the Orange walk culture transmitted 13 March 1975 on BBC1. It was directed by John Mackenzie and stars Jon Morrison and Billy Connolly.
The film won the Prix Italia for Best Drama.
Synopsis
John looks forward with nervous excitement to the annual Orange order march in Glasgow, in which he will lead his local Orange Lodge band as mace-swinger. However, as the day progresses he begins to become disillusioned with the day and his colleagues, as he witnesses their growing drunkenness and unwarranted violence against Catholic homes on the march's route. Events of the day lead him to question his involvement with the band, which also threatens his own safety.
Cast
*Jon Morrison as John
*Eileen McCallum as Lizzie
*Bill Henderson as Dan
*Ken Hutchison as Rab
*Billy Connolly as Paddy
*Jim Gibb as Jim
*Phil McCall as Joe
*Jake D'Arcy as Jackie
*James Walsh as Tommy
*Martin Black as Man in Fight
Critical reception
The BFI's Screenonline website comments: "Beyond the political issues, it is McDougall's mastery not only of the gallows humour of Glasgow's working class but of the hidden motives of parental kindness that make the drama, in Jeremy Isaacs's words, "a masterpiece" and won the play the Prix Italia."
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