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The Falklands Play

Year:

2002

Duration:

90 min

Genres:

Drama | War

IMDB rate:

7.7

Director:

Michael Samuels

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2002-04-10

Cast

Actor

Character

Patricia Hodge

Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP (Prime Minister)

James Fox

Rt Hon Peter, 6th Baron Carrington KCMG MC (Foreign Secretary)

John Standing

Rt Hon William Whitelaw CH MC MP (Home Secretary)

Michael Cochrane

Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)

Jeremy Child

Rt Hon Francis Pym MC MP (Lord President of the Council

Rupert Vansittart

Sir Robert Armstrong (Cabinet Secretary)

Jonathan Coy

Richard Luce MP (Minister of State, Foreign Office)

Clive Merrison

Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)

Peter Blythe

Rt Hon Sir Michael Havers QC MP (Attorney-General)

Jeremy Clyde

Sir Nicholas Henderson (HM Ambassador to the United States)

Colin Stinton

Alexander Haig (US Secretary of State)

Shaughan Seymour

Adm. Sir Henry Leach (First Sea Lord)

Anthony Calf

Robin Fearn (Head of Falkland Islands Department, Foreign Office)

Jasper Jacob

John Wilkinson MP (Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Nott)

Richard Cordery

Tom Enders (US Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs)

Bob Sherman

President Ronald Reagan

Lorelei King

Jeanne Kirkpatrick (US Ambassador to the UN)

Garrick Hagon

Vernon Walters (Senior Adviser to the US Secretary of State)

Robert Hardy

Sir Anthony Parsons (HM Ambassador to the UN)

Arturo Venegas

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (UN Secretary-General)

Vernon Dobtcheff

Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)

Robert Bowman

Sir Hamilton Whyte (Member, British Mission to the UN)

John Woodvine

Adm. of the Fleet Sir Terence Lewin (Chief of the Defence Staff)

Tom Chadbon

Adm. Sir John Fieldhouse (C-in-C Fleet)

Gordon Langford Rowe

Rt Hon George Thomas MP (Speaker of the House of Commons) (as Gordon Langford-Rowe)

Patrick Godfrey

Rt Hon Michael Foot MP (Leader of the Opposition)

Ron Meadows

Rt Hon Peter Shore MP (Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer)

Renny Krupinski

David Lambie MP (Labour)

David Fleeshman

Rt Hon Denis Healey CH MBE MP (Deputy Leader of the Labour Party)

Charles McCurdy

John Browne MP (Conservative)

Martin Oldfield

Rt Hon Enoch Powell MP (Conservative)

Geoffrey Wilkinson

Sir Anthony Meyer Bt MP (Conservative)

Alan Rothwell

John Wells MP (Conservative)

Geoff Holman

Rt Hon Tony Benn MP (Labour)

Ray Donn

Minister (uncredited)

Leonard Silver

Government Minister (uncredited)

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Trivia

Michael Cochrane (Nicholas Ridley) later appeared in two other BBC political dramas focussing on Margaret Thatcher: Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (2008) and Margaret (2009), in which he played Sir Waldron Smithers and Alan Clark respectively.

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Originally commissioned by the BBC in 1987 but wasn't filmed until 2002.

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The script used in the film is in fact an amended and abridged version of the original script. It removes all of the material involving the Junta and the Pope.

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Quotes

Alexander Haig: We are trying to de-escalise a war.

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