A Beast with Two Backs (1968)
1h 11m
Running Time
November 20, 1968Release Date
A Beast with Two Backs (1968)
1h 11m
Running Time
November 20, 1968Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.
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Cast & Crew.
Patrick Barr
Joe
Denis Carey
Ebenezer
Laurence Carter
Mickey Teague
Madeleine Newbury
Joan Teague
Christian Rodska
Rufus
Geraldine Newman
Rebecca
Roger Gartland
Jack
Terence Sewards
Will
Anthony Andrews
Harry
Basil Henson
The Inspector
Audine Leith
Nellie
Lionel Harris
Director
Dennis Potter
Writer
Ken Westbury
Cinematography
Howard Kennett
Editor
Patrick Barr
Producer
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
"A Beast With Two Backs" is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on BBC1 on 20 November 1968 as part of The Wednesday Play strand.
The play is a fictional account of an event that happened in the Forest of Dean in the 1890s when four Frenchmen came over the border from Gloucester with dancing bears, who were subsequently killed by miners coming off the late shift in retaliation for an unrelated attack on a young local girl.