25 May 2023
A Life on the Farm
A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.
Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric
A 1974 documentary in which comedian Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics including Alexander Stuart Wortley who lives in a box on wheels, a cowboy vicar and the artist/filmmaker Bruce Lacey showing his set-up where he pretends to fly a Lancaster bomber in his garage.
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Dave Allen Self
Edward H. Blackmore Self
Ivor Cutler Self
Snowy Farr Self
Bruce Lacey Self
Alexander Stuart Wortley Self
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