The Raging Moon (1971) Online
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Malcolm McDowell | - | Bruce | |
Nanette Newman | - | Jill | |
Georgia Brown | - | Sarah | |
Bernard Lee | - | Uncle Bob | |
Gerald Sim | - | Rev. Corbett | |
Michael Flanders | - | Clarence Marlow | |
Margery Mason | - | Matron | |
Barry Jackson | - | Bill | |
Geoffrey Whitehead | - | Harold | |
Chris Chittell | - | Terry (as Christopher Chittell) | |
Jack Woolgar | - | Bruce's Father | |
Norman Bird | - | Dr. Mathews | |
Constance Chapman | - | Mrs. Mathews | |
Michael Lees | - | Geoffrey | |
Geoffrey Bayldon | - | Mr. Latbury |
Gary Oldman said in an interview that after watching this movie as a little kid, he was so impressed by the movie, especially by Malcolm McDowell performance that he decided that he wanted to become an actor.
Opening credits prologue: NOT FOR THE PROUD MAN APART FROM THE RAGING MOON I WRITE ON THESE SPINDRIFT PAGES NOR FOR THE TOWERING DEAD WITH THEIR NIGHTINGALES & PSALMS BUT FOR THE LOVERS, THEIR ARMS ROUND THE GRIEFS OF THE AGES, WHO PAY NO PRAISE OR WAGES NOR HEED MY CRAFT OR ART.
-DYLAN THOMAS.
The title comes from a phrase in a Dylan Thomas poem
Opening credits: All characters and events in this film are fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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