Pressure (1976)

'So what's wrong with bacon and eggs, fish and chips and Gary Glitter?' - I spat out a mouthful of coffee when I heard this line. Ah, the 1970's...

Laurie Orla

Historically important, as the first British Black dramatic feature-length film, this is, despite some rough and ready dialogue and some ropey acting, a very powerful, gritty drama examining the life of Tony (Herbert Norville) a British-born Black teenager in the mid-70s,…

williamfaeleith

was scared for a moment there was a child in the bed

lily ☮︎

'So what's wrong with bacon and eggs, fish and chips and Gary Glitter?' Ah you'll find out one day Tony... Horace Ové earned the distinction of making the first black feature film made in Britain with Pressure, which focuses on Tony (Herbert Norville) an educated…

Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸

"Pressure" is noted as the first Black-directed feature-length film in the United Kingdom. It portrays a Trinidadian family who are part of the wave of Caribbean immigrants known as the "Windrush generation". Many Islanders came to the UK, USA and Canada after World War 2.…

Karl

Should I be surprised that such a pro-black film only has 152 views on Letterboxd? Should I be surprised that a film that features long sequences of militant black revolutionaries giving speeches denouncing racist institutions is so hard to find legally in the U.S.? Should…

Mister All Sunday

After the discussion about race at the recent Oscar's the British film industry would do just as well to look at itself. Looking back across the decades, films relating to black culture and the community are extremely thin on the ground. At the very least these types of…

Steven Sheehan

this movie sounds like my grandmother.

jourdain searles

This film contains the most Caribbean mother ever put to screen.

jourdain searles