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P'tang Yang Kipperbang DRAMA Based on Jack Rosenthal's childhood memories, Michael Apted's film, set in the summer of 1948, features 14-year-old Alan who has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes and that he will finally kiss classmate Ann.
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang, also released as Kipperbang, is a British television film first shown on Channel 4 on its second night, 3 November 1982. Written by Jack Rosenthal as part of the First Love series, it is a coming-of-age film set in a grammar school in the outer London suburbs of the late forties.
Fourteen-year-old Alan Duckworth’s life is dominated by two obsessions: his passion for cricket and his awkward infatuation with Ann Lawton, a girl in his class at school. Derided by his friends and drifting his way through his education, Alan is forced to confront his adolescent lust when he and Ann are cast as lead roles in the school play, a pair of roles that will require them to kiss.
A cricket-mad schoolboy lusts after his classmate, but she’s got eyes for another. Maybe the school play will be his chance to kiss her? If only he could get...
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- Empress Movies
29 gen 2007 · This is a rather curious film set in post-war middle England. The star of the film is John Arlott, or at least his voice, whatever the credits may say. Having heard David Putnam and Jon Agnew discuss the film at length on the Test Match Special lunchtime "A View from the Boundary" slot I admit that I ordered it immediately and was not disappointed.
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang is an enchanting comedy set in post-World War Two Britain. Based on a story by Jack Rosenthal, it studies a teenage boy's relationships and period of sexual awakening. John Albasiny stars in the role of a cricket-obsessed adolescent, Alan Duckworth, who lusts after his classmate Ann (played by Abigail Cruttenden).
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