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Comfort and Joy
UNITED KINGDOM · 1984

Comfort and Joy

Bill Forsyth
organized crime ice cream business Glasgow radio broadcasting family rivalry
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Synopsis

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.

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