Title: | Hole in Babylon, A | |
Director 1: | Horace Ové | |
Country: | UK | |
Year: | 1979 | |
length: | 66 mins | |
Colour/b-w: | colour | |
Genre: | TV drama | |
Screenwriter: | Horace Ové, Jim Hawkins | |
Cinematographer: | Kenneth MacMillan | |
Editor: | Tony Woollard | |
Producer: | Graham Benson | |
Production company: | BBC TV | |
Cast: | T-Bone Wilson, Trevor Thomas, Archie Pool | |
Location: | TABB | |
TABB No.: | 36 | |
Synopsis: | The TV drama recounts the true story of the Spaghetti House Siege, an armed robbery by three black men who held hostages at an Italian restaurant in London in 1975. In flashbacks we learn about the background and lives of these men and the events leading up to the siege. | |
Keyword 1: | prison | |
Keyword 2: | police | |
Keyword 3: | violence | |
Keyword 4: | black | |
Keyword 5: | London | |
Keyword 6: | cultural identity | |
Keyword 7: | community | |
Keyword 8: | 1970s | |
Text Reference 1: | Going to Meet the Man |
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