Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

Película de TV
2008
1h 30min

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Julie Walters in Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaDocuments the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960s, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC.Documents the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960s, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC.Documents the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960s, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC.

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- 1 premio ganado y 2 nominaciones en total

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Trivia
The footage of Doctor Who (1963), seen on a television screen and used to depict the violence of the series, was edited to suggest that the scene takes place at the end of the episode. In fact, the scene in question took place around halfway through Doctor Who (1963) season five, episode four, "The Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 4". This clip was followed by part of the opening sequence, showing the title and Patrick Troughton's face.

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The sign on the door of Lord Hill's office reads "Lord Charles Hill". This is incorrect as such a style implies that he was the son of a Duke or a Marquess. The sign should have read "Charles, Lord Hill", "Lord Hill of Luton" or, more likely, simply "Lord Hill".

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David Turner: I've just had a spot of bother in Birmingham - I was ganged-up on by a group of schoolgirls and that demented housewife.
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene: Ah yes, of course. Now what *is* her name? No, don't tell me. Well you know what they say, old chap? Writing well is the best revenge.
[he turns to walk away]
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene: Though garrotting your enemy with cheesewire runs a close second.

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Opening titles: "The story you are about to see really took place... only with less swearing and more nudity".

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Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Nicole Kidman/Hugh Bonneville/Julie Walters/Take That (2014)

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Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

Mary Whitehouse appointed herself as the moral guardian of 1960s Britain. Mainly because everything she watched on television especially the BBC shocked her.

In reality she was a voice that was heard by broadcasters. One among many others.

It was only in the 1980s with Mrs Thatcher in power she found an ally. Whitehouse's voice became more powerful especially as she was a Christian conservative. Thatcher did not like television and the BBC.

This is a satirical comedy drama as Mrs Whitehouse (Julie Walters) launches a campaign against the libertarian Director General of the BBC Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (Hugh Bonneville.)

The 1960s saw a change in broadcasting. Censorship became lax, satire became more harsher and cruder. The swinging 1960s and the permissive society was a step too far for Mrs Whitehouse.

Her band of followers created the Clean Up TV campaign group. It consisted of writing lots of letters to the BBC and politicians. It was a form of intimidation and she just wanted another kind of state censorship.

The program makes clear that Mrs Whitehouse had no time for lefties or gays or just modern Britain.

I found this television film disappointing and disjointed. The media poked fun of Mrs Whitehouse straight as she came into prominence. The show Swizzlewick satirised her in the 1960s much to her displeasure.

It has a fantasy sequence where Mrs Whitehouse has an erotic dream about Carleton Greene. It was unnecessarily crude.

Her views should had been combated, instead it decides to go for boorish slogans against her.

It is heavily implied that Mrs Whitehouse eventually saw off Carleton Greene. That is not so. Then prime minister Harold Wilson disliked what Carleton Greene was up to and provocatively appointed a former ITV man as the new chairman of the BBC.