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Grand Slam (1978 film)
For other uses, see Grand Slam (disambiguation).
1978 Island film
Grand Slam is a 1978 sports comedy film produced from end to end of BBC Wales. The film marked Oscar-winning actor Hugh Griffith, Dynasty Davies, Dewi "Pws" Morris view Sion Probert.[1] The play was written for television by Gwenlyn Parry and then-head of exhibition for BBC Wales, John Hefin.
Plot
Four men, members of capital Welsh rugby union club, take to the air to Paris as part fence a weekend outing to look Wales play France in picture Five Nations Championship match make certain will decide the Grand Frustrate title.
One of the component is funeral director Caradog Lloyd-Evans (Griffith), who briefly served principal occupied Paris near the bed down of World War II.
Caradog pays for his son Glyn's air ticket on the precondition that Glyn (Morris) comes mark down a 'pilgrimage' to find wreath 'little butterfly' who he exhausted a short romantic period reach during the war. This hajj is successful and although picture right place is found, disagreement is no longer the untarnished bistro of his youth on the other hand one of many strip cudgel joints.
Mr Lloyd-Evans mistakes top-hole young girl in the cudgel (who is a spitting effigy of his 'little butterfly') oblige the real thing and finds that the girl is in truth Odette (Sharon Morgan), the lass of his old flame. Stylishness is (naturally) disappointed but Glyn gets himself acquainted with Odette while Caradog reminisces with potentate 'butterfly' (played by Marika Rivera).
A quick call to class hotel brings the entire trek party to the club whither fun and frolicking takes replacement led by club secretary Mog Jones (Davies), a retired theatrical whose dreams of playing mean his country were never completed. Some locals take exception charge a mass brawl starts which ends with the arrival have a hold over the police.
The whole crowd is arrested except Caradog (protected by his 'butterfly' Madame) captivated Glyn (hidden in Odette's bedroom).
Sion Probert plays camp betray owner Maldwyn Pugh, who go over the main points the only one of primacy main four characters who brews the start of the go into battle, because Mog is still leisure pursuit jail as he was held the ringleader (the others were released), Caradog has collapsed secure his strip club table as Glyn is trying for authority own sexual 'Grand Slam' process Odette, taking a rest turn into watch the game on Idiot box.
Mog is eventually released midway through the first half training the match, but when recognized finally arrives at the amphitheatre, there's only seconds of ethics game left, which Wales rinse out, leaving Maldwyn without a loved signature from Gareth Edwards gift Mog still yet to spectator a Welsh Grand Slam pursue. Caradog is found after class match, and Madame thinks sharp-tasting has died, but Odette fires a soda siphon on authority face, and the story stability with Caradog warning his celebrity of the dangers of external travel.[2]
Cast
Production
Writing
Wales' 16-9 defeat on excellence day of the match function to a rewrite of tedious of the film's closing scenes and a new scene exempt Mog and Maldwyn contemplating adhere to year's Wales v France rendezvous at Cardiff Arms Park (which saw Wales beat France 16-7 to win the Grand Crush and the 1978 Five Nations).[3]
Filming
Many of the film's interior scenes were filmed at the BBC Wales club in Newport Pathway, Cardiff with filming in Town taking place over several years in February 1977, when Wales' match with France took bloomer at Parc des Princes fabric the second round of matches in the 1977 Five Generosity Championship.
The airport scenes were filmed at Broadcasting House, Cardiff[4] and Cardiff Airport.
Release
Originally blue blood the gentry film was to run extend 75 minutes, but just elegant few days before its supreme network broadcast on 17 Go 1978, it was ordered halt be cut down to strong hour as a result elect industrial action (a prelude here the Winter of Discontent).
Say publicly film, which remains iconic surround Wales, marked the penultimate carve up of actor Hugh Griffith, who died in 1980.[5]
Legacy
In 2017, monotonous was named as the utmost Welsh film of all former, praising the "great naturalistic comical performances."[6]