Portrait of Isa Mulvenny(1985)
It is the 1950s: Bill Thompson is a middle-class English boy sent by his father to serve an engineering apprenticeship on the Clyde. He lodges with a Greenock family, and forms an attachment to his landlady, Mrs Mulvenny , which is to affect his life for the next 20 years
Movie: Portrait of Isa Mulvenny
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Bill Thompson
Andrew Mulvenny
Frank Fogel
Joe Harper
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It is the 1950s: Bill Thompson is a middle-class English boy sent by his father to serve an engineering apprenticeship on the Clyde. He lodges with a Greenock family, and forms an attachment to his landlady, Mrs Mulvenny , which is to affect his life for the next 20 years
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1985-09-03
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