Lay Down Your Arms

Release Date: 1970-05-23

Overview: Dennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing this play for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series. At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Russian invasion of Hungary, Private Bob Hawk reports to the London Intelligence Office where the strength of Soviet troops is under scrutiny.

Rating: 6 / 10

Cast

Nikolas Simmonds

as Private Hawk

Leonard Trolley

as Lt. Col. Bakeman

Peter Cellier

as Major Hissock

John Warner

as Major Wilson

Graham Armitage

as Major Timps