GB
1985
1hr 37mins
Dir: John Irvin
Starring: Ben Kingsley and Glenda Jackson
Two lonely Londoners decide to release back into the wild, turtles from London Zoo
This drama about ‘people rediscovering the joys of life and love’ is based on a screenplay adapted by Harold Pinter from Russell Hoban’s 1975 novel Turtle Diary. It features a scene with Ben Kingsley alighting from a District Line train of D78 stock at Kensington Olympia station, plus another shot of a similar unit in a night time run by. Finally, there are some lingering shots of Glenda Jackson sat on a bench on the banks of the River Thames close to Hungerford Bridge. When looking up in one shot, there is an obscured view of an EPB crossing.
