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Status
Released
Release
1992
Runtime
2h 30m
Darkly comic murder mystery adapted from a novel by Booker Prize-winning author Bernice Rubens. Luke Wakefield is not so much a knight in shining armour as an oddball in a suit. And his crusade is more of a "who ami" than a "whodunit".
25 Cast Members
Peter Capaldi
Luke Wakefield
Richard Griffiths
Porter
Michael Maloney
Richard
Pam Ferris
Mad Marion
Miranda Richardson
Sandra
Paul Brooke
Doctor
Gillian Raine
Sebastian's Housekeeper
Mossie Smith
Connie
Doreen Mantle
Chrissie
Philip Bird
TV Newsreader
Albert Welling
Detective Inspector
Brinley Jenkins
Old Welsh Man
Steve Hervieu
Reporter
Richard Bebb
Richard Cobham
Joshua Richards
Welsh Customer
Laurence Allan
Welsh Barman
Ruth Kenley-Letts
Gallery Receptionist
Tanveer Ghani
Post Office Clerk
Kim Benson
Young Mother in Post Office
Charu Bala Chokshi
Post Office Lady
