The White Bus

Originally intended as part of an aborted trilogy of Shelagh Delaney adaptations, Lindsay Anderson’s inventive satire takes a magical mystery tour through mid-60s England.

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • With

    Patricia Healey, Arthur Lowe, John Sharp, Julie Perry

  • UK 1967. 46min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    12A

Adapting Shelagh Delaney’s story about a young woman who returns from London to her northern hometown, Anderson anticipates his subsequent trilogy with this sharply pointed satire on English provincialism – one that mixes moments of realism and fantasy in disarmingly inventive style. Screening with Anderson’s Green and Pleasant Land (1955), a selection of his 1960s TV commercials and an extract of Anderson in conversation with filmmaker (and then head of BFI Production) Mamoun Hassan.

Screening with:

Green and Pleasant Land

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • UK 1955. 3min

  • 16mm

  • 12A

 

Anderson commercial test reel

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • UK 1960. 9min

  • Digital

 

In Conversation – Lindsay Anderson and Mamoun Hassan

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • UK 1973. 10min (extract)

  • Digital

Total running time 68min

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