Just Another Saturday is a Play For Today (BBC) about the Orange walk culture transmitted 13 March 1975 on BBC1.[1] It was directed by John Mackenzie and stars Jon Morrison and Billy Connolly.[2]
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Directed by | John Mackenzie |
Screenplay by | Peter McDougall |
Produced by | Graeme MacDonald |
Starring | Jon Morrison Billy Connolly Eileen McCallum Bill Henderson Ken Hutchison Robert Callander |
Cinematography | Philip Meheux |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | Scotland |
Language | English |
The film won the Prix Italia for Best Drama.[3]
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.
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."[4]
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