The Curse of Steptoe

The Curse of Steptoe

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  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Michael Samuels
  • Cast(s): Jason Isaacs, Phil Davis, Roger Allam, Clare Higgins, Burn Gorman See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 7min
  • Award(s): RTS Television 2009 (Won)
    BAFTA TV 2009 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Bluff, Eternity
  • Story:
    In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.
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STORY

Story
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.

AWARDS

Won
RTS Television Award

Best Single Drama | 2009

RTS Craft & Design Award

Best Production Design Drama For and | 2008 | Patrick

Best Production Design Drama | 2008 | Patrick

Nominations
BAFTA TV Award

Best Actor | 2009 | Jason

Best Production Design | 2009

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

The brother of Harry H. Corbett's second wife, Maureen, complained to the BBC that the timeline portrayed in the film was wildly misleading and gave the impression that i) Maureen's affair with Harry may have led to the break-up of his marriage to Sheila Steafel, which was not the case, and ii) Harry's decision not to make any more episodes of Steptoe and Son (1962) coincided with the birth of his and Maureen's first child, whereas the birth had happened eight years before the end of Steptoe. The BBC upheld these complaints and agreed not to repeat the film unless it was edited to remove these misleading errors.

Made as one of a four-part season "The Curse of Comedy" on BBC Four, though not billed on-screen with this series title. The other three films in the series were Hancock & Joan (2008), Hughie Green, Most Sincerely (2008) and Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me (2008).

Although the film depicts the 1962 arrest of Wilfred Brambell on a homosexual charge, it fails to make clear that Brambell was exonerated and the charge dropped.

Rory Kinnear appears in this TV movie as writer Alan Simpson, half of the Galton & Simpson writing partnership Rory's late father, actor Roy Kinnear, appeared in The Galton & Simpson Playhouse - Naught for Thy Comfort (1977)

Popular Dialogues

"Alan Simpson: A rag-and-bone man? What an awful premise for a sit-com that would be!"

"Joan Littlewood: That was a Richard for the masses you just gave. Now you stay focussed. Get the Histories under your belt. After that we need to see your Macbeth. And then, and only then, will you be ready for the Danish ditherer."