Up the Junction: screencaps
This film is about Polly, a rich girl from Chelsea, who wants to experience 'real life', so she gets a job in a factory in
Battersea. She makes friends with the girls working there, and gets a crummy flat.
In this scene near the start of the film, Polly has gone to the pub with new friends Sylvie and Rube. There they meet three
guys including Terry, played by Michael Gothard.
They spend the evening with them.
Sylvie and Rube get up and sing with the band.
Terry hits on Rube, and takes her for a ride on his Triumph bike.
Rube is clearly smitten, and snogs Terry outside her front door.
We don’t see Michael for a while after that, but we hear that Terry and Rube are going steady, though Sylvie says he’s a
“love ’em and leave ’em” type.
The next time we see Terry is after Polly takes Rube to a back-street abortionist - an old woman who does the necessary
above her shop! Rube hadn’t told Terry she was pregnant. He goes to her house to take her out.
Terry is then confronted by Sylvie and Rube’s mother, who calls him a dirty bastard, and won’t let him see Rube. Upset that
Rube has flushed his child down the drain (as he puts it), Terry claims that Rube was just a cheap thrill, and roars off on
his bike.
However, the next we see, Terry has stuck by Rube, and they are having an engagement party. Rube decides she wants to
go bowling, so they all go out to their various means of transport.
Rube decides to ride in one of her friends’ cars, leaving Terry and another of the group to race to the bowling alley. Rube
says that whoever gets there first can have her.
A truck pulls out; Terry goes straight into it, and dies, twitching, under the truck.
The main focus of the film, is Polly's attempt to live like the common people, and her romance with Pete, who would prefer
to escape the life of toil and deprivation that Polly finds so fascinating.
The story of Terry and Rube provides a tragic sub-plot.
Battersea. She makes friends with the girls working there, and gets a crummy flat.
In this scene near the start of the film, Polly has gone to the pub with new friends Sylvie and Rube. There they meet three
guys including Terry, played by Michael Gothard.
They spend the evening with them.
Sylvie and Rube get up and sing with the band.
Terry hits on Rube, and takes her for a ride on his Triumph bike.
Rube is clearly smitten, and snogs Terry outside her front door.
We don’t see Michael for a while after that, but we hear that Terry and Rube are going steady, though Sylvie says he’s a
“love ’em and leave ’em” type.
The next time we see Terry is after Polly takes Rube to a back-street abortionist - an old woman who does the necessary
above her shop! Rube hadn’t told Terry she was pregnant. He goes to her house to take her out.
Terry is then confronted by Sylvie and Rube’s mother, who calls him a dirty bastard, and won’t let him see Rube. Upset that
Rube has flushed his child down the drain (as he puts it), Terry claims that Rube was just a cheap thrill, and roars off on
his bike.
However, the next we see, Terry has stuck by Rube, and they are having an engagement party. Rube decides she wants to
go bowling, so they all go out to their various means of transport.
Rube decides to ride in one of her friends’ cars, leaving Terry and another of the group to race to the bowling alley. Rube
says that whoever gets there first can have her.
A truck pulls out; Terry goes straight into it, and dies, twitching, under the truck.
The main focus of the film, is Polly's attempt to live like the common people, and her romance with Pete, who would prefer
to escape the life of toil and deprivation that Polly finds so fascinating.
The story of Terry and Rube provides a tragic sub-plot.