Rent Dead Head (1986)
3.7 of 5 from 48 ratings
3h 11min
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- Synopsis:
- 'Dead Head' is a controversial four-part BBC noir drama written by Howard Brenton, in which the British secret service frame a petty crook Eddie (Denis Lawson) for murders committed by a member of the royal family. Entrusted with a hat box and given £500 to deliver it to an address in Regent's Park, Eddie's world is thrown upside down when he makes the fatal mistake of looking inside only to discover a severed head. At various points he is intercepted by the army, anarchic coke-snorting aristos, and seduced and tortured by a naked woman in Wellington boots. All along questioning "why me?", will Eddie ever find the answers he is looking for?
- Actors:
- Denis Lawson, George Baker, Simon Callow, Lindsay Duncan, Norman Beaton, Susannah Bunyan, Larrington Walker, Winston Crooke, Edita Brychta, Don Henderson, Eric Francis, Gabriel Connaughton, Mischa de la Motte, Nicholas Hutchison, Barbara Wilshere, Meriel Scholfield, Helena McCarthy, Stephen Oxley
- Directors:
- Rob Walker
- Producers:
- Robin Midgley
- Writers:
- Howard Brenton
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Drama, TV Crimes, TV Dramas, TV Mysteries
