Once a Year on Blackpool Sands (2021)
A moving comedy-drama about the love, identity and courage of the LGBTQ community during the first walk towards Gay Pride in 1950s England. Based on the real-life events of Yorkshire coal miners and secret gay lovers, Tommy and Eddy, who spend their annual week holiday at a quirky B & B in Blackpool, along with a few other alternative members of society – the transgender Mr. Elbridge, the ex-show girl Red Ethel and the eccentric owner Gladys and her flirty daughter Maureen.
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Cast
- Kyle Brookes — Eddy
- Macaulay Cooper — Tommy
- Wendy Laurence James — Gladys Bracegirdle
- Elizabeth Coombs — Alice Price
- Linda Clark — Red Ethel
- Dominic McCavish — James Elbridge / Phyllis
- Joel McVeagh — Karlton
- Julia Haworth — Sandra Green
- Michał Szpak — Milo
- Steven Arnold — Reg Green
- Tony Richardson — Hubert Corkhill
- Vicki Glover — Nurse Bickerstaff
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