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"The Kiss of Death" is the ninth episode of seventh season of the British
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anthology TV series ''
Play for Today''. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 11 January 1977. "The Kiss of Death" was written and directed by
Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design ...
, produced by
David Rose, and starred
David Threlfall
David John Threlfall (born 12 October 1953) is an English stage, film and television actor and director. He is best known for playing Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series '' Shameless''. He has also directed several episodes of the show. In A ...
.
Mike Leigh directed "this whimsical tale about Trevor, (David Threlfall), an unusually bashful mortician's assistant", whose moods and personality really make up the subject of the film. A natural landscape for Leigh's offbeat and bleakly humorous worldview. Leigh has often said the film is one of his favourites, not least because Trevor contains certain autobiographical elements.
Trevor and his friend Ronnie form a foursome with Linda and Sandra. A brake on Trevor's joy in life "is the factual premonition of everyday death", and the central incident of a
cot death affects him profoundly.
Plot summary
Cast
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David Threlfall
David John Threlfall (born 12 October 1953) is an English stage, film and television actor and director. He is best known for playing Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series '' Shameless''. He has also directed several episodes of the show. In A ...
as Trevor
* Clifford Kershaw as Mr Garside
* John Wheatley as Ronnie
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Angela Curran
Angela Curran is an English actress, known for '' Death at a Funeral'' (2007), ''Jane Eyre'' (2011) and '' The Danish Girl'' (2015).
In 2003, Curran had her own one woman show, ''Happy Talk'', broadcast on Radio 3.
She appeared as security gu ...
as Sandra
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Kay Adshead as Linda
Critical responses
"The Kiss of Death" is highly regarded by the critic
Michael Coveney
Michael Coveney (born 24 July 1948) is a British theatre critic.
Education and career
Coveney was born in London and educated at St Ignatius’ College, Stamford Hill, and Worcester College, Oxford.
After graduation, he worked as a script re ...
, who wrote in a 1996 study of Leigh's work : "The kissing part of "The Kiss of Death" is an extraordinary scene. Linda and Trevor are on a sofa, she chewing away, he nervously amused but not exactly apprehensive...The playing of Kay Adshead and David Threlfall indicates every stage of this sexual jousting match with faultless accuracy and perception. We glimpse ... an entire catalogue of human emotions in the mating game: anxiety, cruelty, affection, wonder, contempt and playfulness. This is how love scenes are endured in life, not in the movies, but distilled and refined for ''this'' movie."
[Coveney, p.111-112]
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1977 British television episodes
1977 television plays
British television plays
Films directed by Mike Leigh
Films scored by Carl Davis
Play for Today
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