Up the Junction soundtrack by Manfred Mann. The television version of the play was the inspiration for the 1979 Squeeze hit "Up the Junction". Up the Junction Up the Junction is a 1963 collection of short stories by Nell Dunn that depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham Junction. The book uses colloquial speech, and its portrayal of petty thieving, sexual encounters, births, deaths and back-street abortion provided a view of life that was previously unrecognised by many people. The book won the 1963 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. In 1965 it was adapted for television by the BBC
Mingo Junction, Ohio which was released in 1984. Cast members included Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah. Many scenes were set in Mingo Junction or nearby cities such as Steubenville, Ohio, and Weirton, West Virginia and Pittsburgh. Movie credentials also include 1983's "All the Right Moves" starring Tom Cruise and Craig T. Nelson and Heart of Steel with Peter Strauss and Pamela Reed, also of 1983. The 1979 film "Take Down", starring Lorenzo Lamas and Kevin Hooks, was set at Mingo Junction High School. In 2016, the village was visited and filmed for a Dutch television show called "Jensen kiest voor Amerika" (Jensen chooses