Langrishe, Go Down (film)

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Langrishe, Go Down, the novel by Aidan Higgins (1966), was adapted for the screen by Harold Pinter and was filmed for BBC Television and broadcast in September 1978 as a 90-minute BBC2 Play of the Week.

The setting is a fading Irish mansion in the Waterford countryside, in the late 1930s. Three spinster sisters, played by Judi Dench, Annette Crosby and Susan Williamson, lose their equanimity - and in one case her virginity - when a mature German student (Jeremy Irons) rents the lodge house while he works on his thesis. The film also included some location work in Dublin, and was made by the BBC in association with Radio Telefis Eireann.

Pinter wrote his script for the cinema, but it was finally taken up by BBC Television when it failed to go into production as a film.^[1]