Credits
- Philip Marlow
- Michael Gambon
- Mark Binney
- Patrick Malahide
- Nurse Mills
- Joanne Whalley
- Staff Nurse White
- Imelda Staunton
- Mr Tomkey
- Leslie French
- Director
- Jon Amiel
- Writer
- Dennis Potter
Episode 1 of 6
Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music. Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with the skin complaint psoriasis, tormented by his past and threatened by his future. His memories, his 1930s-style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.
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