Red, White, and Zero
Directed by Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook
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Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.Read moreLess
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.
The story
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.
Cast & crew
Zero MostelCast
Julia FosterCast
Frank ThorntonCast
Patricia HealeyThe Girl
Arthur LoweThe Mayor
Stephen MooreYoung Man
Victor HenryTransistorite
Anthony HopkinsBrechtian
Barry EvansBoy
Vanessa RedgraveJackyExplore the crew
- Original Music Composer
- Stanley Black
- Director of Photography
- David Watkin
- Original Music Composer
- Howard Blake
- Original Music Composer
- Monty Norman
- Original Music Composer
- Misha Donat
- Director
- Tony Richardson
- Director
- Lindsay Anderson
- Director
- Peter Brook
- Director of Photography
- Miroslav Ondříček
- Screenplay
- Julian More
- Director of Photography
- Billy Williams
- Writer
- Peter Brook
- Screenplay
- Shelagh Delaney
- Editor
- Kevin Brownlow
- Screenplay
- Tony Richardson