The Leather Boys (Original title)
Date: 08 March 1964 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Sidney J. Furie
Synopsis: Dot and Reg discover on their honeymoon their divergent attitudes to marriage: Dot wants fun, Reg wants Dot. Facing domestic chaos Reg with Pete makes a new life for himself of fast, ton-up, motor-bike trips. After unsuccessful and half-hearted attempts at reconciliation Reg finds Dot is unfaithful and plans to take a merchant ship to New York with Pete. Whilst waiting for him at a dockside pub, he discovers the brutal truth about Pete himself and realises that friendship too has failed.
Genre: Drama
Subject: Bikers
Releases
Date: 1963Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 108 mins Length: 9719 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 23 June 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 108 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 08 March 1964 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Sidney J. Furie
Synopsis: Dot and Reg discover on their honeymoon their divergent attitudes to marriage: Dot wants fun, Reg wants Dot. Facing domestic chaos Reg with Pete makes a new life for himself of fast, ton-up, motor-bike trips. After unsuccessful and half-hearted attempts at reconciliation Reg finds Dot is unfaithful and plans to take a merchant ship to New York with Pete. Whilst waiting for him at a dockside pub, he discovers the brutal truth about Pete himself and realises that friendship too has failed.
Genre: Drama
Subject: Bikers
Releases
Date: 1963Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 108 mins Length: 9719 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 23 June 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 108 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
(24)
Production Company: Raymond Stross Productions, [Production Company]: Viewfinder Film Productions, Producer: Raymond Stross, Production Manager: Fred Slark, Production Supervisor: Jack Swinburne, Assistant Director: Roy Baird, Continuity: Helen Whitson, Screenplay: Gillian Freeman, Based on the novel by: Eliot George, Director of Photography: Gerald Gibbs, Camera Operator: Chick Waterson, Editor: Reginald Beck, Production Designer: Arthur Lawson, Wardrobe Master: Harry Haynes, Make-up: Jimmy Evans, Hairdresser: Anne Fordyce, Music Composed & Directed by: Bill McGuffie, Sound Camera Operator: Arthur Vincent, Sound Mixer: Derek McColm, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Dubbing Editor: Alf Cox, [Unit Publicist]: Geoffrey Freeman, Made at: Merton Park
Cast
(22)
Rita Tushingham (Dot), Colin Campbell (Reggie Wilcox), Dudley Sutton (Pete), Gladys Henson (Gran), Avice Landon (Reggie's mother), Lockwood West (Reggie's father), Betty Marsden (Dot's mother), Martin Mathews (Uncle Arthur), Johnny Briggs (Brian, the boy friend), James Chase (Les), Geoffrey Dunn (Mr Lunnis), Dandy Nicholls (Mrs Stanley), Elizabeth Begley (woman receptionist), Valerie Varnam (Brenda), Jill Meredith (June), Brian Phelan (man in jeans), Oliver Macgreevy (merchant seaman), Sylvia Kaye (school teacher), Sandra Caron (1st schoolgirl), Tracey Rogers (2nd schoolgirl), Carmel McSharry (bus conducter), Joyce Hemson (publican's wife)