Edna: The Inebriate Woman
TV Movie
Drama
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
1971-10-21
en
Cast
Director
Ted Kotcheff
Patricia Hayes as Edna
Barbara Jefford as Josie, of 'Jesus Saves'
Cheryl Hall as Vangi, Inmate at 'Jesus Saves'
Freda Dowie as Mother Superior, Helper at 'Jesus Saves'
Roger Hammond as Victor, Helper at 'Jesus Saves'
June Watson as Attendant, at The Spike
Kate Williams as Teresa, Inmate at 'Jesus Saves'
Vivian MacKerrell as Tramp
Malcolm Terris as Psychiatrist, in Psychiatric Hospital
Walter Sparrow as Common Lodging House Proprietor
Jerry Verno as Old Man, at The Spike
Charles Farrell as Tramp
Anthony Dawes as Man in Car
John Hussey as Psychiatrist
Keith Marsh as Porter, in Psychiatric Hospital
June Brown as Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital