Scottish Television (STV)
Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment
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Comfort and Joy
A serious comedy
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
- Original title
- Comfort and Joy
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
- Budget
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CinemaSerf
Apr 23, 2024 · via TMDB
Without any help at all from "Mr. Bridger", the Italian chip shops and ice cream vans of Glasgow are being smashed up. It's only because he takes a bit of a shine to one of the girls in the van that local radio personality "Alan" (Bill Peterson) witnesses one of the assaults and decides that he must do something to ensure peace breaks out. There really were "ice cream wars" in Glasgow so this engaging comedy has it's roots in fact as he tries to get the warring "Mr. Cool" (Robert Bernardi) and "Mr. Bunny" (Alex Norton) round the wafer table before his new soft-top BMW becomes little more than a bright red ashtray. He starts to use his radio show to convey illicit messages that just come across as gobbledegook to his station boss "Hilary" (Rikki Fulton) and soon his own career is starting to look like it might be melting too. The solution. Well anyone who's ever been to the city will know that we fry everything - even Mars bars! Patterson is on good form here, and his amiable delivery quite subtly takes an entertaining ping at the mundanity of commercial radio and it's banal advertising whilst touching on then ridiculing what was quite a serious issue at the time. Rikki Fulton has expert comedy timing and facial expressions that deliver what a thousand words never could. "Has he got a sanity clause"? Well it is the winter. Well worth a watch.
r96sk
Oct 18, 2020 · via TMDB
A nice, amusing and creative premise. I enjoyed <em>'Comfort and Joy'</em>. Bill Paterson heads events confidently as Alan, he's fun to watch in the lead. Patrick Malahide (<em>'Game of Thrones'</em>, <em>'Luther'</em>) is in there too, while Alex Norton and Roberto Bernardi play their respective roles well. The pacing, to me at least, is a little off at around the midway point, but otherwise it's a pleasant film from 1984. Watch it if you get the opportunity.
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Bill Paterson
Alan
Eleanor David
Maddy
Clare Grogan
Charlotte
Alex Norton
Trevor
Patrick Malahide
Colin
Rikki Fulton
Hilary
Iain McColl
Archie
Gilly Gilchrist
Rufus
Caroline Guthrie
Gloria
Ron Donachie
George
Arnold Brown
Psychiatrist
Robert Buchanan
Trevor's Workman
Douglas Sannachan
Trevor's Workman
Billy Greenlees
Trevor's Workman
David O'Hara
Engineer
Chris Menges
Director of Photography
Lindy Hemming
Costume Design
Bill Forsyth
Director
Jim Gillespie
Third Assistant Director
Susie Figgis
Casting
Guy Fletcher
Musician
Mark Knopfler
Original Music Composer
Bill Forsyth
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