Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Release: 1971-10-21
·Runtime: 90m
TV Movie
Drama
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
BBC
Cast
June Brown
as Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital
Freda Dowie
as Mother Superior, Helper at 'Jesus Saves'
Roger Hammond
as Victor, Helper at 'Jesus Saves'
Malcolm Terris
as Psychiatrist, in Psychiatric Hospital
Walter Sparrow
as Common Lodging House Proprietor
Keith Marsh
as Porter, in Psychiatric Hospital
Cheryl Hall
as Vangi, Inmate at 'Jesus Saves'
Vivian MacKerrell
as Tramp
John Hussey
as Psychiatrist
June Watson
as Attendant, at The Spike
Kate Williams
as Teresa, Inmate at 'Jesus Saves'
Patricia Hayes
as Edna
Barbara Jefford
as Josie, of 'Jesus Saves'
Jerry Verno
as Old Man, at The Spike
Charles Farrell
as Tramp
Anthony Dawes
as Man in Car
