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The Dresser

Release Date:December 6, 1983

Running Time:118 min

Genres:Drama

Director

Cast

Albert Finney Tom Courtenay Edward Fox Zena Walker Eileen Atkins Michael Gough Cathryn Harrison Betty Marsden Sheila Reid Lockwood West Donald Eccles Llewellyn Rees

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.

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