Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Glass Glass Pictures
The Communists
"The Revolution Should Have Been Televised"Movie
Plot
Manfield South Yorkshire 1984 Outofwork steelworkerturned radical revolutionary Joe Starkhill and his band of comrades seize the Town Hall and take the Mayor her driver a security guard and a civil servant hostage declaring the start of a socialist revolution in Britain But when a faulty phone line prevents them from alerting the local newspaper and TV station and the police write them off as a hoax it is only when one of the hostages fails to return home for dinner that the alarm is raised and Inspector John Machin is dispatched to the Town Hall to investigate but its not long before the building is surrounded by the press police and public turning Starkhill and the Revolutionaries into a media sensation
