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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire is a 1985
1985 in film

Events* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton....
 musical film starring Phil Daniels and Alun Armstrong. The film was directed by Alan Clarke
Alan Clarke

Alan Clarke was a television director and film director, producer and writer, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England.Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today....
 and written by Trevor Preston.

illy the Kid is a young, up-and-coming snooker
Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered snooker table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions....
 player. His manager, T.O. (The One), a compulsive gambler, falls into debt with psychopathic loanshark the Wednesday Man, who offers to cancel T.O's debt if he can arrange a 17-frame grudge snooker match between Billy, and the reigning world champion Maxwell Randall (popularly known as the Green Baize Vampire).

To ensure that both players will agree to the match, T.O hires a journalist, Miss Sullivan, to stir up trouble between them.






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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire is a 1985
1985 in film

Events* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton....
 musical film starring Phil Daniels and Alun Armstrong. The film was directed by Alan Clarke
Alan Clarke

Alan Clarke was a television director and film director, producer and writer, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England.Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today....
 and written by Trevor Preston.

Plot

Billy the Kid is a young, up-and-coming snooker
Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered snooker table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions....
 player. His manager, T.O. (The One), a compulsive gambler, falls into debt with psychopathic loanshark the Wednesday Man, who offers to cancel T.O's debt if he can arrange a 17-frame grudge snooker match between Billy, and the reigning world champion Maxwell Randall (popularly known as the Green Baize Vampire).

To ensure that both players will agree to the match, T.O hires a journalist, Miss Sullivan, to stir up trouble between them. She interviews Billy and the Vampire separately, asks them leading questions intended to elicit angry responses and provoke enmity, then prints the results. The match is set.

Unknown to T.O., the Wednesday Man has hidden motives regarding the match. The sinister loanshark has engineered a clause in the game's legal documentation to the effect that the loser will agree to never play professional snooker again. Though the Vampire is close to retirement, Billy is young, and such a clause - if he loses - would greatly disadvantage him. T.O. only agrees when the Wednesday Man suggests that the Vampire will "not be at his best"; a clear insinuation that he will be bribed, or threatened. It is only later that T.O. discovers that this is a lie, and that the Wednesday Man is plotting with the Vampire, hates both him and Billy, and wishes to see them suffer.

The match goes very badly for Billy, but when T.O. finally confesses, during a break, of his underhand dealings with the Wednesday Man (and the Vampire himself) he manages to pull himself together and eventually win the match.

Cast

  • Phil Daniels
    Phil Daniels

    Philip Daniels is an England actor, most noted for film roles as Jimmy in Quadrophenia , Richards in Scum , Kevin Wicks in EastEnders, and for his collaborations with Britpop band Blur ....
     - Billy the Kid (snooker player)
  • Bruce Payne
    Bruce Payne

    Bruce Martyn Payne is an England actor and producer. Though better known for his villainous roles, Bruce Payne has played characters across the spectrum....
     - T.O. ('The One', Billy's manager)
  • Richard Ridings
    Richard Ridings

    Richard Ridings is a United Kingdom actor, known for his portrayal of Allan in ITV Television drama Fat Friends, and for the BBC1 comedy-drama Common as Muck....
     - Egypt (Billy's minder)
  • Alun Armstrong
    Alun Armstrong (actor)

    Alun Armstrong is an Olivier award-winning English people actor and singer, perhaps best known for his role as Brian Lane in New Tricks ....
     - Maxwell Randall (the Vampire)
  • Don Henderson
    Don Henderson

    Don Henderson was an England actor whose film and TV work covered many years but will be best remembered for his role as the fictional detective George Bulman....
     - The Wednesday Man (loanshark)
  • Louise Gold
    Louise Gold

    Louise Gold is a United Kingdom singer-actress and Spitting Image puppeteer, formerly a puppeteer for The Muppet Show and Sesame Street....
     - Miss Sullivan (reporter)
  • Zoot Money
    Zoot Money

    George Bruno "Zoot" Money is a singing, keyboardist, bandleader and actor best known for his playing of the Hammond Organ and the Big Roll Band....
     - Supersonic Sam (cafe owner)
  • Eve Ferret - Mrs Randall (the Vampire's wife)
  • Neil McCaul - Big Jack Jay (Snooker compere)
  • Johnny Dennis - Referee


Songs

  • "Green Stamps" – sung by Billy
  • "Poker Song" – T.O.
  • "Supersonic Sam's Cosmic Cafe" – Billy and the Cafe denizens
  • "I Bite Back" – the Vampire
  • "I'm the One" – T.O.
  • "BtKatGBV (Practice Practice Practice)" – Miss Sullivan
  • "Snooker (So Much More Than Just a Game)" – Big Jack Jay
  • "Kid to Break" – Billy and the cast
  • "Quack Quack" – the match crowd
  • "It's the Fame Game" – Billy and the cast
  • "White Lines Black Cadillac" – T.O.


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