Film

Smack and Thistle

1991 · 1h 30m

IMDb

5.5

With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean... as soon as he's seen to one final heist. In the house that he burgles he comes across Elizabeth - rich, desperate, hopelessly addicted to a heroin and unconscious. Saving her from the clutched of an overdose, Abel stays out of compassion which eventually evolves into attraction. But when Abel takes on Elizabeth he also takes on her family. His resolution to go straight has to go on the back burner while he struggles against a drugs conspiracy that stretched from the slums of the East End to the Houses of Parliament.

Charlie Caine

Abel

Rosalind Bennett

Elizabeth

Patrick Malahide

Dirk-Brown

Peter McNamara

Ben

Connie Booth

Ms Kane

Rudolph Walker

Churchill

James Saxon

Wilks

Geoffrey Palmer

Sir Horace Wimbol

Trevor Laird

Baron Greenback

Thomas Craig

Spikey

Steve Sweeney

Ariel

Walter Sparrow

Waggy

Gina McKee

Lucy Lisle

• Tunde IkoliDirector

Release date

April 20, 1991

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 30m