Outsiders Latest Short Film ‘Dicky Peg Dave’ Directed by J Marlow

Dicky Peg Dave director J Marlow on the family-rooted inspiration and the production story behind the short film

"My Mum does this thing where she’ll mention a random person that I’ve never heard of, or not seen for 30 years, then clarify with a small obscure bit of background. When I look puzzled she’ll always add “You know him” followed with by another random bit of random backstory. 

The idea for Dicky Peg Dave sketch was born out of this, and the setting came from chats Vicki Maguire and I had years ago about writing a series about a group of people who worked on a market, but like most of these things that idea never happened.

I’d been wanting to do a sketch for a while, something super simple, two people, dialogue lead, in one environment, something that was cheap to shoot and focused on a great cast, this ticked all the boxes.

Outsider were awesome and got behind it straight away, after I finished the script we shot two weeks later.

The shoot, at Staines Old Market Square, was also one of those great laid- back shoots with an awesome crew of people who all kindly gave there time and expertise. Thank you all for making it a fun project from start to finish.

N.B. Dead Bob, name checked in the film, was a real person. A landlord my dad knew, who ran the a pub in Northampton. To his friends, it was always Dead Bob’s because the landlord looked like a cadaver, this was of course until Dead Bob died, after that, they referred to the pub as ‘Dead Dead Bob’s' "