If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have To Invent Them (1974)

  • TV comedy drama
  • ITV1
  • 1974
  • 1 episode

Colour re-make of Johnny Speight's 1968 bleakly comic allegorical play.

If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have To Invent Them

Both versions of the ITV comedy drama written by Johnny Speight.

Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.

The release includes the black and white 1968 version starring Ronald Radd and Frank Thornton, and the colour 1974 version starring Leonard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale.

First released: Monday 19th April 2010

  • Distributor: Network
  • Region: 2
  • Discs: 1
  • Minutes: 110
  • Catalogue: 7953166

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