Bread (1971 film)
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Suzanne Mercer
Executive
Barry Jacobs
| Bread | |
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| Directed by | Stanley Long |
| Written by | Suzanne Mercer |
| Story by | Stanley Long Suzanne Mercer |
| Produced by | Stanley Long Executive Barry Jacobs |
Production company | Salon Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 79 mins (original release) 68 mins (later release)[2] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Bread is a 1971 British film directed by Stanley Long, written by Long and Suzanne Mercer.[3] The British Film Institute (BFI) called it "an unusual mixture of pop festival documentary and saucy teen comedy."[2][4]
Mick, Jeff, Trev, Cathy and Marty are a group of friends returning from the Isle of Wight Pop Festival. They decide to pitch their tent and squat in the grounds of a large country estate. The estate's owner, Rafe, who has recently inherited it, agrees that they may stay in exchange for them painting the house while he is away. The friends instead decide to organise their own pop festival
Cast
- Crazy Mable (featuring the sounds and faces of)
- Juicy Lucy (featuring the sounds and faces of)
- Dick Haydon as Trev
- Nigel Anthony as Mick
- Peter Marinker as Jeff
- Mike Mcstay as Rafe
- Yocki Rhodes as Terry
- Liz White as Marty
- Noelle Rimmington as Cathy
- Richard Shaw as bookshop proprietor
- Sean Lynch as Dany
- Ben Howard as Gerry
- Andie Ross as secretary
- Derek Pollitt as customer
- Peter May as policeman
- Penny Brahms as Jan
- Robert Hartley as buyer
- Ann Murray as traffic warden
- Robert Hewison as TV interviewer
- Web as themselves
Production
The film was financed by the backers of Groupie Girl (1970) and was based on the real life exploits of co-writer Suzanne Mercer.[2] It opens with footage from the Isle of Wight Pop Festival.
Long called it "a terrible film in a way," saying the distributors were "really into sex films" and "didn't quite understand the pop culture" while "we were trying to make films that were more interesting" so "they got films made fairly seriously on the culture that existed at the time but they didn't get what they wanted. We were anti explicit nudity for the sake of it ... We got caught between two stools."[4]