Home Before Midnight

Not to be confused with Before Midnight.

Home Before Midnight
UK DVD cover
Directed byPete Walker
Written byMurray Smith
Michael Armstrong
Story byPete Walker
Produced byPete Walker
StarringJames Aubrey
Alison Elliott
Mark Burns
Juliet Harmer
Richard Todd
CinematographyPeter Jessop
Edited byAlan Brett
Music byJigsaw
Ray Russell[1]
Production
company
Peter Walker (Heritage)
Distributed byAnchor Bay Entertainment
Release date
  • 18 October 1979 (1979-10-18) (UK)
Running time
111 minutes[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Home Before Midnight is a 1979 British sexploitation drama film[3] directed and produced by Pete Walker, written by Murray Smith, and starring James Aubrey, Alison Elliott and Richard Todd.[4]

Plot

The film is set in London and follows Mike Beresford, a 28-year-old[5] songwriter[4] who is charged with statutory rape after having sex with a 14-year-old girl.[6]

Cast

Production

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the film - excluding incidental music provided by Ray Russell[1] - was written and performed by British band Jigsaw.[8][9] These songs were later released on a soundtrack album.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Home before Midnight (1978) - Credits | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Home before Midnight (1978) - Release | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  3. ^ Sweet (2005, p. 284)
  4. ^ a b "Home before Midnight (1978) | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  5. ^ Bowker's Complete Video Directory. Vol. 1–4. R. R. Bowker Publishing. 1992. p. 466. ISBN 9780835237666.
  6. ^ Sweet (2005, p. 254): "In Pete Walker’s Home before Midnight (1979), [Richard Todd] is a lawyer arguing that a relationship between a twentysomething songwriter and a fourteen-year-old girl does not necessarily constitute a case of statutory rape."
  7. ^ "Home before Midnight (1978) - Cast | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  8. ^ Perrone, Pierre (23 October 2011). "Clive Scott: Keyboard-player, singer and songwriter with the Seventies pop group Jigsaw". Independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 September 2017.
  9. ^ "Home before Midnight (1978) | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014.
  10. ^ "Home Before Midnight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". Amazon. 6 December 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2021.

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