The Mosedale Horseshoe

The story of four Lakeland walkers who attempt to climb a fell. The fells represent the highlight of their year. They all have dull and uninteresting jobs and their only chance of relieving the boredom is in the fells After five years of weekends together they had never managed to reach the top of the Horseshoe, but were always defeated by something trivial. By the sixth year their combined failure to get to the summit took on the proportions of a tragedy especially they all saw it matching the situation in their everyday lives. Filmed on location

Rosemary Leach

Helen

Bernard Hepton

Derek

Mary Miller

Wendy

David Swift

Walter

Michael Gover

Mr. Pott

Faith Kent

Mrs. Pott

• Michael AptedDirector
• Arthur HopcraftWriter
• Peter EckersleyProducer

Release date

March 23, 1971

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

50m

Genres

Drama, Comedy, TV Movie