Waterford's forgotten TV crime movie - Making the Cut

Judgement Day

Does anybody have memories of this RTE movie - “Making the Cut” (1998) ?

It starred Sean McGinley, Andrea Irvine, Alan Archbold, Brendan Gleeson, Bosco Hogan, Gerard McSorley, Owen Roe, Aaron Harris. Directed by Martyn Friend and based on the novel of the same name by Jim Lusby.

Waterford, southern Ireland. A Saturday night in October during a dock strike. A wino looking for a place to sleep breaks into a cargo container full of peat moss. But there’s already someone else nestling snugly in there, wrapped in a bin-bag, head protruding from a tear in one end, a rough X carved on his face.

Unshaven, unorthodox and unpopular with his superiors, Detective Inspector Carl McCadden (Sean McGinley) must figure out exactly what Billy Power, keeper of greyhounds, and Jack-the-Lad about Waterford – was involved in, and why he had to die. But straight answers about Power, or anything else for that matter, are hard to come by…

Never released on VHS or DVD and drew a lot of criticism at the time from the powers that be in Waterford for portraying the city in a bad light. It has well and truly fallen off the radar now and there's only the tiniest mention of it online. I'm looking for anything related to the movie - I have the book - but surely somebody down there has a copy on VHS recorded from the telly?

Thanks in advance for any information.

jmcc

Well they Deeferised it so that it was no longer Waterford. It was the pondscum intellected Deeferisation of the story that washed most of Waterford out of the movie (it even changed the name of the city and made it into to some Dublin suburb/dormer town) that was the worst thing. The books were quite interesting and a lot better than the movie. Not even sure if the movie was repeated on RTE.

Regards...jmcc

curly.bert

I remember it well. "The Garden City"

Harry Palmr

Yep I recall the excitment of the Ferrybank DC being closed for some filming for the opening episode. That was as Waterford as it got. The actual drama was pretty lame though the nub of the story is actually rather prescient.

RTE really were at a low point back then when it came to fiction.

fiachr_a

Here's a British crime movie from that era. Go to 30 seconds in the trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZoDAjWB1M

Harry Palmr

"In a world..."

IMDB says it was filmed in Stevenage, weird how Rice Bridge popped up there unless they were able to pilfer the same footage that was shot for Making the Cut - its the sort of thing that does happen if the production company is shared.

Judgement Day

Very weird but not of much help. Surely somebody has a recording of it or are you still ashamed that Waterford was shown in a bad light?

mooseknunkle

Has anybody got a copy of the infamous "Waterford blue"