The Glory Boys

The Glory Boys
Written by	Gerald Seymour
Directed by	Michael Ferguson
Starring	Rod Steiger Anthony Perkins Alfred Burke Joanna Lumley
Music by	Alan Parker
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Alan Landsburg David Cunliffe
Producer	Michael Glynn
Cinematography	Alan Pyrah
Editor	Elizabeth Kling
Running time	139 minutes
Production company	Yorkshire Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	1 October (1984-10-01) – 3 October 1984 (1984-10-03)

The Glory Boys is a 1984 British three-part television thriller miniseries made for Yorkshire Television and first broadcast on the ITV network between 1 and 3 October 1984, starring Rod Steiger and Anthony Perkins. It is about two terrorists, one from the IRA and another from the PLO, who meet up in London to assassinate an Israeli nuclear scientist.

Cast

• Rod Steiger as Professor David Sokarev
• Anthony Perkins as Jimmy
• Alfred Burke as Jones
• Joanna Lumley as Helen
• Sallyanne Law as Norah
• Aaron Harris as Cillian McCoy
• Gary Brown as Famy

Production

Steiger and Perkins were at loggerheads during the production of The Glory Boys. Perkins resented the fact that Steiger insisted on a bigger trailer and felt that Steiger was trying to steal scenes from him, while Steiger had thought Perkins "so jittery and jinxed by the chemicals he was taking" that he felt sorry for him and believed that he was jeopardizing the success of the film.

References

Sources

• Hutchinson, Tom (1998). Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship. V. Gollancz. ISBN 978-0-575-05903-0.

External links

• The Glory Boys at IMDb