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A filmed report from three Irish towns invaded by British film-makers.
On the shores of Galway Bay, Clive Donner is re-creating the ninth-century Danish invasion of England for his epic Alfred the Great. David Hemmings plays the King.
In Bray, Stanley Baker is rebuilding Hogarth's London for his spectacular film Where's Jack? which features Tommy Steele in the title role of an eighteenth-century highwayman.
In Kilkenny the townsfolk are enjoying their annual Beer Festival and recovering from the Lock Up Your Daughters invasion, which for three months has peopled the streets with rakes, fops, doxies, pedlars, gin-tipplers, and lechers, and horrified the town with intrigues and scandals.

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Subject:
Clive Donner
Subject:
David Hemmings
Subject:
Stanley Baker
Producer:
Tony Staveacre

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