The Curse of Steptoe
Release Date: 2008-03-18
Rating : 6.4/10
Duration : 67 minutes
Genres : Drama, TV Movie
Director : Michael Samuels
Writer : Brian Fillis
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.
Cast
Jason Isaacs
Phil Davis
Roger Allam
Clare Higgins
Burn Gorman
Rory Kinnear