Movie

Paper Roses (1971)

• June 13, 1971
• 52m

• Drama
• TV Movie

Overview

Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.

Director

Barry Davis

Writers

Dennis Potter

Starring

Bill Maynard, Donald Gee, Aimée Delamain