Gentlemen's Relish
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The career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When a leading gallery rejects his work, he seems at the point of giving up. It is only the support of his housekeeper, Violet Askey, that keeps him going and it is she who encourages him to switch to photography. Soon Swann has developed a healthy (and respectable) business with portraits of naked women in classical and exotic settings. However, the nature of Swann's new work is open to misinterpretation and he finds himself at the centre of a scandal involving the misuse of his pictures by a SOHO pornographer, and the focus of a campaign by suffragettes against the expoitation of women. At the same time, he loses the support of the loyal Violet, who leaps to the wrong conclusion about Swann's relationship with one of his models. When Violet then becomes involved in the suffragette and amti-pornography movements, it seems all may be lost for Swann - both professionally...and personally.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2001-01-01
Runtime: 90 mins
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Martn Auty, David Nobbs, Miles Gibson
Spoken language: English
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Original title: Gentlemen's Relish
Production Companies: BBC Film, Icon Productions
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Cast
Billy Connolly
Sarah Lancashire
Douglas Henshall
Simon Chandler
Jamie Bradley
Dominic Mafham
Emma Stansfield
Tony Maudsley
Nick Stringer
Chris Middleton
Rebecca Johnson
Katie Blake
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