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Trying to identify two short films seen on RTE in the 80's.

  • 13-01-2025 10:25am
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    Hangdogroad
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    I've tried the "identify that movie" thread in the movies forum with separate posts about these with no luck. Both of these short films I saw maybe circa between 1985-87. Both very different.

    First was British, it had a "Play For Today" feel about it. Have looked through the list of PFT's and not found anything matching but I reckon it was part of a similar TV play anthology.

    Was set in the North Of England, I think Yorkshire. Main character was a middle aged man who looked like he might have stepped out of early Coronation Street or Last Of The Summer Wine. Flat cap, glasses. This guy is out walking in the moors when he sees a feral greyhound running at great speed. He has an internal monologue that went something like "I'd never seen a dog go so fast".

    He decides he's going to catch it and train it to become a champion greyhound. There's a dream or fantasy sequence where the dog is running in and winning a race (filmed in slow motion). The guy is drinking champagne out of a trophy and the sound of commentators announcing the dogs win.

    He gets a younger guy to try and help him catch the dog but it gets away and yer man throws his cap on the ground in frustration. He tries to catch it one more time at a later stage and corners it but it bites him and gets away. I think after this he accepts that the dog can never be tamed and gives up.

    It had a bit of a Ken Loach vibe, possibly non professional actors. Was about half and hour long.

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    Hangdogroad
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    Second film was very different. Think it was fairly "new", early to mid 80's. Was about ten minutes long.

    The setting was an unnamed Latin American dictatorship and seemed to be a response to what was going on in some Central American countries at the time with death squads, disappearances etc.

    There was no dialogue, just music. Opened with workmen coming along in a lorry and using a hose to wash political murals off a wall. Film followed a teenage boy who happens to spot the girl who is painting the murals (maybe at night?) He falls in love with her and he starts going out in secret painting murals as well critical of the regime. Somehow maybe in some coded messages in the murals they plan to meet in secret. He watches her in hiding as she paints a mural and is all set to introduce himself when there's a screech of tyres and a lorryload of soldiers pull up and arrest her, bundle her into the lorry then speed off. He sees this going on from wherever he's hiding. I think this scene was at night.

    The boy then paints a mural in memory to the girl, I think he falls asleep and it ends with people gathered around looking at it.



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