‘Taffin’ screening

Greystones Film Club presents ‘Taffin’ at Whale Theatre on Thursday, October 8. The film will be shown at 8 p.m.

Shot largely around Greystones and the surrounding area, the 1988 Irish thriller ‘Taffin’ saw Pierce Brosnan still chasing that elusive Bond role.

The Navan actor would, of course, go on to take the arched eyebrow approach of Roger Moore to a whole new level.

Here, seven years before ‘GoldenEye’, Brosnan is far closer to home. And working with a much, much smaller budget. Think Bond does ‘Glenroe’. Coming on the back of his hit TV series ‘ Remington Steele’, Brosnan switched to the big screen with ‘Taffin’, playing the eponymous troubled maverick with a neat sideline in collecting on other people’s bad debts. When, that is, he isn’t busy wooing The Stables’ pool hall barmaid Alison Doody in his stylish Wicklow seafront loft. The resulting film is unintentionally hilarious, and something of a cult in comedy circles.

Look out too for Dermot Morgan (aka Father Ted), compering a rowdy afternoon strip show in Greystones’ long-gone Cabanas nightclub.

For tickets to the screening and membership to the film club, go to Whalethetre.ie.