Just a Boys' Game is a 1979 Play for Today written by Peter McDougall and directed by John Mackenzie.[2][3][4][5]
Just a Boys' Game | |
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Written by | Peter McDougall |
Directed by | John Mackenzie |
Starring | Frankie Miller Ken Hutchison Jean Taylor Smith |
Music by | Frankie Miller |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Production | |
Producer | Richard Eyre |
Cinematography | Elmer Cossey |
Editor | Graham Walker |
Running time | 71 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC1 |
Release | 8 November 1979[1] |
It features Frankie Miller, Gregor Fisher, Ken Hutchison, Hector Nicol, Jean Taylor Smith, Katherine Stark, Barry Malone, Michael Malone and band The Cuban Heels.[2]
The plot revolves around the life of Jake McQuillan who lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who used to be Greenock's hardest man.[6]
The play was filmed in and around Greenock, Drumchapel[citation needed] and Port Glasgow.[7]
Frankie Miller's song Rules of the Game is featured over the closing credits.[8]
Screenonline wrote "stunningly photographed by Elmer Cossey and featured McDougall's most crackling dialogue and richest characterisations, all brilliantly evoked by a cast headed by blues singer Frankie Miller in a performance that melts the camera in its intensity."[9]