
Love on a Gunboat
1977-01-04 · 79 min · Not rated
In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.
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- Robert Knights
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Stephen MooreLeslie Potter
Barbara FlynnMonica Potter
Andrew DownieHamish
Terence TaplinGroup leader
James HazeldineDennis Horncastle
Julian FellowesInterviewer
Jane FreemanKnitting lady
Bernard GallagherMr. Biffen
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