Based on the novel by Tom Sharpe, Porterhouse Blue is a dark farce about an ancient Cambridge college and it's arcance ways confronted by the modern world. David Jason in a BAFTA winning performance plays Scullion whose devotion to the college even extends to calling the rowdy students 'gentlemen' all because it is the college's way. Things are given a major shake up when an new master of the college and sets to change against the will of the set in their ways staff. The scenes of Scullion and the master confronting each is the showcase of 2 fine actors, Jason and in the role of the master Ian Richardson. Porterhouse Blue is full of moments of dark humour such as the couple killed in the middle of an erotic tryst because one of them had stuffed a chimey full of condoms in order not to be discovered only for them to explode! Also in the cast are Charles Gray, Griff Rhys Jones and playing the unfortunate male half of the doomed couple John Sessions. Porterhouse Blue is scathing of both rigid tradation and PC culture and a great laugh with it.
Review of Porterhouse Blue
