Plot Summary
Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- The Last Days of Jack Sheppard
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- en
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Cast
Mark Tinter
Jack Sheppard
Donal Cox
Daniel Defoe
Guy Henderson
Applebee & Harlequin
Rebecca Wieland
Elizabeth Lyon & Lady Credit
Frederic Azzopardi
Duverger
Rufus Graham
Devereux & Stockjobber
Archie Christian
Carpenter #1 & Stockjobber
Errol Flynn
Carpenter #2 & Stockjobber
Kieran Gordon
Apprentice
Geoff Regan
Jack Ketch, the Executioner
Susan Gallivan
Mrs. Sheppard
William Fowler
Soldier #1
Mark Harwood
Soldier #2
Doug Shearer
Priest
Clifford Allison
Master Wood & Rummer
Peter Hurley
Page the Butcher
Duncan Mahon
Sykes alias Hell & Fury
Peter Suchin
Hack Journalist
Yvonne Harvell
Drinker in Tavern
Tim Goldie
Masked Reveller & Stockjobber
Production Companies
Chisenhale Gallery London
CCA Glasgow
The Henry Moore Foundation
Arts Council of England
The Scottish Arts Council