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The Quiet Racket
19667 min 23 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Gerald Potterton
Production: Guy Glover
Script: Alan Hackney
An amusing tale of a man who feels the common urge to escape the city's noise for a weekend of quiet in the hills beyond. Made without words, but with a wide range of other sounds, urban and rural, this film tracks our hero to his haven of non-peace. He finds the countryside not as unspoiled and uncrowded as the poets proclaim, nor is the "bosom of nature" entirely without rocks.
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Subject categories
- Environment and Conservation > AllegoriesPollution
- Arts Education > DramaMusic
- Geography > Human Geography
Credits
- director
- Gerald Potterton
- script
- Alan Hackney
- photography
- Robert Humble
- editing
- Donald Rennick
- sound
- Donald Douglas
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- Roger Lamoureux
- producer
- Guy Glover
- cast
- Ted Zeigler
- Ned Conlon
- music
- Donald Douglas