The Glory Boys

The Glory Boys
Written by Gerald Seymour
Directed by Michael Ferguson
Starring Rod Steiger
Anthony Perkins
Alfred Burke
Joanna Lumley
Music by Alan Parker
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) Alan Landsburg
David Cunliffe
Producer(s) Michael Glynn
Cinematography Alan Pyrah
Editor(s) Elizabeth Kling
Running time 139 minutes
Production company(s) Yorkshire Television
Release
Original network ITV
Original release 1 – 3 October 1984

The Glory Boys is a 1984 three-part British television thriller miniseries made for Yorkshire Television and first broadcast on the ITV network between 1 and 3 October 1984, starring Rod Steiger and Anthony Perkins.[1] It is about two terrorists, one from the IRA and another from the PLO who meet up in London to assassinate an Israeli nuclear scientist.

Cast

Production

Steiger and Perkins were at loggerheads during the production of The Glory Boys. Perkins resented the fact that Steiger insisted on a bigger trailer and felt that Steiger was trying to steal scenes from him, while Steiger had thought Perkins "so jittery and jinxed by the chemicals he was taking" that he felt sorry for him and believed that he was jeopardizing the success of the film.[2]

References

  1. Photoplay Movies & Video. Photoplay/M.A.P. Limited. 1983. p. 248.
  2. Hutchinson 1998, p. 151.

Sources

  • Hutchinson, Tom (1998). Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship. V. Gollancz. ISBN 978-0-575-05903-0.
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