The Beiderbecke Connection (TV Miniseries)
1988 · Series · 201 min. · United Kingdom
It is the third and final part of The Beiderbecke Trilogy. Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English and wants to help save the planet. They live together and just want a quiet life. Since their last adventure in The Beiderbecke Tapes, Jill and Trevor have a child - Firstborn. Big Al asks them to put up a friend of his and, of course, they agree. But when Ivan arrives, they find he speaks no English but thinks that "Bix is cool". Meetings with criminals, smuggling people over the border, fighting for the right to education even when it's against the rules. These and other adventures are played out to a soundtrack of jazz music in the style of Bix Beiderbecke performed by Frank Ricotti with Kenny Baker as featured cornet soloist.
Direction Alan Bell
Cast James Bolam · Barbara Flynn · Dudley Sutton · Keith Smith · Dominic Jephcott · George Costigan · Patrick Drury · Sean Scanlan · Dave Leslie · Gaynor Kitchen · Darren Bennet · Thomas McGlinchey · Terence Rigby · Danny Schiller · Judy Brooke · Eamon Boland · Peter Martin
Soundtrack Frank Ricotti
Screenplay Alan Plater
Cinematography Peter Jackson
Original title The Beiderbecke Connection
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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