Released
The Curse of Steptoe
March 18 2008 (over 16 years ago)Rating
67
Based on
6 reviews
- Director: Michael Samuels
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 7 m
- Country: United Kingdom
- Company: BBC
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.
