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AUTUMN PATROL

Quint McBride hits the big screen
– but only with five minutes’ grace!

Autumn Patrol is a five-minute film short featuring Quint, the traffic warden anti-hero of the stage show High Vis.  

It was written and directed by Robert Cohen, but, unlike all other incarnations of the character, Quint is played here not by Cohen but by Ross Gurney-Randall. Among the supporting cast are Jenny Rowe, Matt Beaumont and the legendary Shirley Jaffe, previously seen in films such as Taste the Blood of Dracula and Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.

The film is a mood piece, a melancholic elegy for passing time: we see Quint, over a series of days, pounding his beat whilst lamenting both the onset of autumn and the growing phenomenon of pay-by-phone parking – this latter monstrosity being implemented at the expense of traditional ticket machines.

With photography by Tim Pieraccini and a piano score by the director, Autumn Patrol received its world premiere at the Crossing the Screen Film Festival in 2017. It has since received a Special Mention from the London International Comedy Film Festival, and a Driver Award nomination at the 2019 Coventry Film Festival.

Click here to see the film on Youtube.