Prick Up Your Ears
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Prick Up Your Ears

Year:
Duration:
105 min
Genres:
Biography | Drama
IMDB rate:
7.3
Director:
Stephen Frears
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 7 wins & 5 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1987-05-08
Filming Locations: 25 Noel Road, Islington, London, England, UK
Earnings
Gross: $1,654,743 (USA) Related Links
Cast
Actor
Character
Gary Oldman
Joe Orton
Alfred Molina
Kenneth Halliwell
Vanessa Redgrave
Peggy Ramsay
Wallace Shawn
John Lahr
Lindsay Duncan
Anthea Lahr
Julie Walters
Elsie Orton
James Grant
William Orton
Frances Barber
Leonie Orton
Janet Dale
Mrs Sugden
Dave Atkins
Mr Sugden
Margaret Tyzack
Madame Lambert
Eric Richard
Education Officer
William Job
RADA Chairman
Rosalind Knight
RADA Judge
Angus MacKay
RADA Judge
Linda Spurrier
RADA Instructor
Charlotte Wodehouse
Janet
Helena Michell
Orton's Friends
Liam De Staic
Brickie (as Liam de Staic)
Charles McKeown
Mr Cunliffe
Selina Cadell
Miss Battersby
Bert Parnaby
Magistrate
Anthony Carrick
Counsel (as Antony Carrick)
Neil Dudgeon
Policeman
Richard Wilson
Psychiatrist
Christopher Guinee
Publisher
Stevan Rimkus
Kenneth
Michael Müller
BBC Actor 1 (as Michael Mueller)
Anthony Douse
BBC Actor 2
John Kane
Director
Steven Mackintosh
Simon Ward
Garry Cooper
Actor 1 - Mr Sloane
Roger Lloyd Pack
Actor 2
Joanne Connelly
Stage Manager
John Moffat
Wigmaker (as John Moffatt)
Philippa Davies
Peggy Ramsay's Secretary
David Cardy
Brian Epstein
Julie Legrand
Gallery Owner
Noel Davis
Philip
Jane Blackburn
Woman in Gallery 1
Stella Richman
Woman in Gallery 2
Neville Phillips
Man in Gallery
Jonny Phillips
Youth Outside Lavatory (as Jonathan Phillips)
Richard Ireson
Man Outside Lavatory
Ahmed Elgheur
Moroccan Boy 1 (as Ahmed El Jheur)
Moktar Dagmouni
Moroccan Boy 2
Sian Thomas
Marilyn Orton
Stephen Bill
George Barnett
Karl Johnson
Douglas Orton
David Bradley
Undertaker
Simon Adams
Undertaker's Boy
James Duggan
Labourer
Max Stafford-Clark
Awards Chairman (as Max Stafford Clark)
Mark Brignal
Beatles Chauffeur
Joan Sanderson
Anthea's Mother
Neville Smith
Police Inspector
Spencer Leigh
Constable
John Salthouse
Chauffeur
Robin Hooper
Mortuary Attendant
John Bailey
Wigmaker (uncredited)
Derek Jarman
Patrick Proktor (uncredited)
Queen Elizabeth II
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The first film of Steven Mackintosh.
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Wallace Shawn, who plays John Lahr, is (in addition to being an actor) an acclaimed playwright and screenwriter. Until her 1991 death, his play agent was Peggy Ramsay, who was also Joe Orton's agent and who appears in this film as the character played by Vanessa Redgrave.
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The interior (certainly not the exterior as the real house is mid-terraced) of Joe and Ken's flat was filmed in the actual flat where Orton and Halliwell lived (25 Noel Road). However, the murder at the end is filmed on a studio set.
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Goofs
When Joe's agent first meets him in 1964, she asks him how he's been supporting himself. He tells her he's on public assistance, getting £3.10 per week. New pence weren't introduced until 1971. However, in the pre-decimal era, "Three pounds ten" would have been understood as "Three pounds and ten shillings", the present-day equivalent being £3.50. For example, "Maggie Mae", recorded by the Beatles in 1969 but based on a much older traditional song, includes the line "Two pounds ten a week, that was my pay."
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When Joe's agent first meets him in 1964, she asks him how he's been supporting himself. He tells her he's on public assistance, getting £3.10 per week. But new pence weren't introduced until 1971.
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Quotes
Kenneth Halliwell: This is what it must be like when one meets the Queen!
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Joe Orton: [accepting a drama award] My plays are about getting away with it, and the ones who get away with it are the guilty ones. It's the innocents who get it in the neck. But that all seems pretty true to life to me. Not a fantasy at all. I've got away with it *so far*
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Leonie Orton: [Mingling Joe's and Ken's ashes] I think I'm putting in more of Joe than I am of Kenneth.
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Photos from cast
Sean Pertwee
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