Margaret Thatcher's final days as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.Margaret Thatcher's final days as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.Margaret Thatcher's final days as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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- TriviaPhilip Jackson (Bernard Ingram) and Michael Cochrane (Alan Clark) both appeared in an earlier BBC political drama entitled Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), to which this production is an indirect sequel. They played Alf Roberts, the father of the title character, and Sir Waldron Smithers respectively.
- GoofsThroughout the film any time a telephone rang a soft electronic warble ring was used. Yet all telephones seen throughout the production are BT/GPO standard issue (of the day) Type 706's which had a mechanical bell ringer.
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[Michael Heseltine has phoned Geoffrey Howe, ostensibly to say how sorry he is that Howe is resigning as Foreign Secretary. Having done this, he gets onto the real purpose of the phone call - a leadership challenge]
Michael Heseltine: [diffidently] Were I to stand... I mean, were that eventuality to arise... could I, would I be able to count on your support?
Geoffrey Howe: Michael, I think my position is probably best left... uncluttered by commitments of that kind.
Michael Heseltine: Of course.
[long pause]
Geoffrey Howe: Although... Should I have any further message to convey at a later stage, then I shall of course do so.
Michael Heseltine: Right. Yes, of course. Thank you Geoffrey.
[he puts the phone down and turns to his advisors who were listening in]
Michael Heseltine: [shouts] What the *fuck* does that mean?
- ConnectionsFeatured in De wereld draait door: Episode #4.110 (2009)
Lindsay Duncan does a splendid job playing Thatcher. She has the hectoring tone down pat, but relieves it with more intimate, warmer moments. The cabinet looks like a series of gargoyles on the facade of a cathedral--the actor playing Rifkind looks like a toucan in profile, while the rest look either thuggish or pitiable. One of them even bursts into tears when confronted by Thatcher, to her irritation. This TV docudrama can be recommended enthusiastically to all non-British viewers.
- bob998
- Feb 28, 2010
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