The Communists
The Revolution Should Have Been Televised
Manfield, South Yorkshire, 1984. Out-of-work steelworker-turned- radical revolutionary Joe Starkhill and his band of comrades seize the Town Hall and take the Mayor, her driver, a security guard and a civil servant hostage - declaring the start of a socialist revolution in Britain. But when a faulty phone line prevents them from alerting the local newspaper and TV station, and the police write them off as a hoax, it is only when one of the hostages fails to return home for dinner, that the alarm is raised and Inspector John Machin is dispatched to the Town Hall to investigate - but it's not long before the building is surrounded by the press, police and public, turning Starkhill and the Revolutionaries into a media sensation.
- Year: 1970
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Comedy
- Studio: Glass & Glass Pictures
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- Director: Simon Glass
- Cast: William Fox, Richard Galloway, Thanasis Manitarellis, Simon Moore, James Osman, Simon Moore