1987 Directed by Max Stafford-Clark, Glyn Edwards
In a cell in a London police station, a suspected I.R.A. bomber, Roche, has been detained for questioning. To help them in the interrogation, the London coppers have summoned Nelson, a detective from Northern Ireland's predominantly Protestant police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
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Baby Gary Oldman (with I think his original accent?) + Irish Brian Cox = awesome, but subtitles would have reeeeally helped this yank deduce some of the subtleties at work here...
I prefer the writing in plays to the writing in films, so it's such a treat whenever I get to watch a good stage-to-screen adaptation.
Whatever happened to Colum Convey?
The Northern Irish actor had a variety of memorable roles in the '80s and '90s, from Kenneth Branagh's mate in the Billy plays and the witless Alex in the Northern Irish sitcom Foreign Bodies to the brainiac Ceefax in Roughnecks, he was a familiar presence on our screens before disappearing in the last decade or so. Recreating a role he originated on stage, Rat in the Skull sees him star as a captured IRA men bearing the brunt of an oppressively physical and mental interrogation in a London police station. It was a performance that lodged in the mind of Jimmy McGovern, for whom Convey was first choice to play the role of Fitz in…
