The Singer and the Dancer
Clip 2: Loneliness is a pack of dogs that runs at night
3 min 3 sec
Taken from the short feature The Singer and the Dancer (1977)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
Curator’s clip description
Charlie (Elisabeth Crosby) and Mrs Bilson (Ruth Cracknell) have become secret but firm friends. Mrs Bilson tells Charlie that you have to hold something back in love, or you will suffer. She is haunted by memories of her own unhappy marriage, seen briefly in flashback.
Curator’s notes
Setting a scene in which two women talk about men in a pigpen has a distinctly pungent humour, but the scene takes a dark and sudden turn as Mrs Bilson slips back into despair. Her lucidity comes and goes throughout the film, as Armstrong tries to establish a sense of her disturbed inner reality.
Paul Byrnes, curator
