Poor Cow (1967)
Directed by Ken Loach
Joy lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age, she marries and has a child–with an abusive thief who quickly ends up incarcerated. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure–if that.
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Likewise we see clips of Stamp in the 1967 Poor Cow, which show a younger Wilson as a budding thief.
Another ingenious idea that Soderbergh and Dobbs came up with was to incorporate footage from an old Stamp movie called Poor Cow (1967, directed by Ken Loach) and evolve Stamp into an older version of that character.
A sly film ploy also adds realism to Stamp's character by inserting clips from Poor Cow, a 1967 Ken Loach movie starring Stamp that is used to reflect Wilson's flashbacks to his earlier days.
For parts of the character's history, Soderbergh lifts footage from a 1967 film called "Poor Cow," in which Stamp played a young thief, implying that "The Limey" is in some ways a sequel.
Flashbacks of Wilson in his youth are actually scenes from one of Stamp's movies of the '60s, Poor Cow, and they remind us how devastatingly handsome he was as a younger man.
The character is the older, more contemplative incarnation of the thug Stamp played in Ken Loach's "Poor Cow" from 1967.
Ken Loach's ("Poor Cow"/"Kes"/"Land and Freedom") neo-realism drama Sweet Sixteen is a simple and familiar modern urban story about a boy determined to have a normal life despite his unfortunate circumstances.