First showing on network television for
Willy (Educating Rita) Russell's adaptation of his successful stage play, starring Pauline Collins
Tom Conti
Liverpool housewife Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw leads a domestic existence of routine dullness. Her monosyllabic husband's only concern in life is to find his supper on the table at
5.30pm - things are so bad that her only real confidante is the kitchen wall. What she needs is a holiday - a place with sun, sand and sea, a place where she can fall in love with life.
Pauline Collins was nominated for an Oscar for her performance.
Director Lewis Gilbert
● STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888 ● FILMS: pages 4 1-65