A prank becomes a reckoning: 1965 TV movie where Ian McKellen's student radicals put a Tory through hell.
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
Acting
Hawkins' crumbling dignity vs. McKellen's cold, theatrical menace.
Direction
Duguid traps you in one room where ideology becomes physical.
Director
Peter Duguid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just ten days for ITV's 'Play of the Week,' this was early McKellen showcasing the stage intensity that would define his career.
Written in 1964, it channels genuine British anxieties about generational rupture—the same year the first student occupations began at universities.
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