Bill Paterson

Eleanor David

Clare Grogan

Alex Norton

Patrick Malahide

Roberto Bernardi

Rikki Fulton

George Rossi

Peter Rossi

Billy McElhaney

Iain McColl

Billy Johnstone

Gilly Gilchrist

Caroline Guthrie

Oona McCracken

Elizabeth Sinclair

Katy Black

Robin Black

Ron Donachie

Arnold Brown

Robert Buchanan

Douglas Sannachan

Billy Greenlees

Alan Tall

Bob Starrett

David O'Hara

Teri Lally

Allan Wylie

Alistair Campbell

Charles Kearney

Elspeth Cameron

Pearl Deans

Ray Jeffries

Patrick Lewsley

Ronald McCleod Veitch

Johnny Irving

Johnny Mac

Paddy Higson

Bill Forsyth

Clive Parsons

Davina Belling

Michael Ellis

Guy Fletcher

Jim Gillespie

Chris Menges

Mark Knopfler

Adrienne Atkinson

Anne McFadyen

Yvonne Coppard

Susie Figgis

Andy Harris

Lindy Hemming

Mary-Jane Reyner

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Comfort and Joy

Lake (Comfort and Joy)

Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment

Scottish Television (STV)

Kings Road Entertainment

United Kingdom

English

Italiano

glasgow, scotland

holiday

rivalry

ice cream

ice cream man  

ice cream truck

A nice, amusing and creative premise.

I enjoyed 'Comfort and Joy'. Bill Paterson heads events confidently as Alan, he's fun to watch in the lead. Patrick Malahide ('Game of Thrones', 'Luther') is in there too, while Alex Norton and Roberto Bernardi play their respective roles well.

The pacing, to me at least, is a little off at around the midway point, but otherwise it's a pleasant film from 1984. Watch it if you get the opportunity.

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Without any help at all from "Mr. Bridger", the Italian chip shops and ice cream vans of Glasgow are being smashed up. It's only because he takes a bit of a shine to one of the girls in the van that local radio personality "Alan" (Bill Peterson) witnesses one of the assaults and decides that he must do something to ensure peace breaks out. There really were "ice cream wars" in Glasgow so this engaging comedy has it's roots in fact as he tries to get the warring "Mr. Cool" (Robert Bernardi) and "Mr. Bunny" (Alex Norton) round the wafer table before his new soft-top BMW becomes little more than a bright red ashtray. He starts to use his radio show to convey illicit messages that just come across as gobbledegook to his station boss "Hilary" (Rikki Fulton) and soon his own career is starting to look like it might be melting too. The solution. Well anyone who's ever been to the city will know that we fry everything - even Mars bars! Patterson is on good form here, and his amiable delivery quite subtly takes an entertaining ping at the mundanity of commercial radio and it's banal advertising whilst touching on then ridiculing what was quite a serious issue at the time. Rikki Fulton has expert comedy timing and facial expressions that deliver what a thousand words never could. "Has he got a sanity clause"? Well it is the winter. Well worth a watch.

Comfort and Joy( 1984)

A serious comedy

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A review by r96sk

Written by r96sk on Sun Oct 18 2020

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