DramaTV Movie

Lay Down Your Arms

Name: Lay Down Your Arms
Director: Christopher Morahan
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1970-05-23
Duration: 73 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Nikolas Simmonds, Leonard Trolley, Peter Cellier, John Warner, Graham Armitage

May 23, 1970

1h 13m

TMDB7.5· 2

Dennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing this play for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series. At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Russian invasion of Hungary, Private Bob Hawk reports to the London Intelligence Office where the strength of Soviet troops is under scrutiny.