Pasta as prologue: the Spaghetti House siege on film

Two different dramatisations of the 1975 siege of a Knightsbridge restaurant by Black British radicals remind us that history also needs its agitators.
Read Charlie Shackleton's introduction to his video essay on our website:
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun...

[@isabelaoliveira9270]

Really interesting essay, i never had heard of this incident and neither the two films.

[@dobr4481]

The first episode of the tv show 'Minder', 'Gunfight At The OK Laundrette', made around the same time as 'A Hole In Babylon', is another comic dramatisation of the siege & features 'A Hole In Babylon''s Trevor Thomas as one of a trio of Black militants ( who call themselves the Independent Rastafarian Army ) who take Terry McCann, an elderly woman ( played by Hilary Mason of 'Don't Look Now' fame ) & a laundrette owner hostage in the basement of a laundrette ( which still exists today ).

[@analiensaturn]

Wesley was my good friend in Wakefield. A film should be made of him doing his sentence as he was pure resistance all the way and did every day of his 18 years. RIP brother. X