This Week in Britain: Eddie Kid

This Week in Britain: Eddie Kid was released on 1 stycznia 1978.

This Week in Britain: Eddie Kid was directed by Peter Greenaway.

This Week in Britain: Eddie Kid has a runtime of 5 min.

At the age of 18, stunt cyclist Eddie Kidd had already broken world records, been a stunt double for Harrison Ford and released a couple of singles. Yet this profile piece for the COI cinemagazine series “This Week in Britain” offers glimpses that his high life had both its ups and downs. A record-breaking jump of 24 cars was to be the big attraction of a May bank holiday at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu but torrential rain scuppered plans. Kidd returned on the 4th June for a second attempt but with a shoulder injury that you see aggravated here, which prevented a planned second jump and again disappointed audiences. The person tasked with turning all these travails into a light-hearted snippet for overseas audiences was Peter Greenaway, who edited hundreds of stories like this before making arthouse feature hits such as The Draughtman’s Contract (1982).

The key characters in This Week in Britain: Eddie Kid are Self – Host (Maggie Palmer), Self (Eddie Kidd), Self (Sammy Miller).

This Week in Britain: Eddie Kid is a Dokumentalny, Short film.

This Week in Britain: Eddie Kid has an audience rating of 5.6 out of 10.