Billy Liar [50th Anniversary] [Blu-ray]

Director: John Schlesinger John Schlesinger

Overview

Billy (Tom Courtenay) is stuck in his dead-end job as a clerk for a local funeral director. Shadrack (Leonard Rossiter) is his hard driving, humorless employer who scolds young Billy for his constant daydreaming. Billy has two women on the string who believe he will marry them. He takes comfort in an understanding girl named Liz (Julie Christie). Billy has the bad habit of being a pathological liar and reverting to an imaginary world where he dreams he is the dictator of a fictional country. He finds no comfort from his mother, an airhead, or his father, a swaggering bully. The screenplay was written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall from their successful play of the same name.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/14/2013
UPC:	5055201823243
Original Release:	1963
Source:	Imports
Language:	English
Sales rank:	45,870

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tom Courtenay	William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher
Julie Christie	Liz
Wilfred Pickles	Geoffrey Fisher
Mona Washbourne	Alice Fisher
Ethel Griffies	Florence
Finlay Currie	Duxbury
Rodney Bewes	Arthur Crabtree
Helen Fraser	Barbara
George Innes	Eric Stamp
Leonard Rossiter	Shadrack
Godfrey Winn	Disc Jockey
Ernest Clark	Prison Governor
Leslie Randall	Danny Boone
Gwendolyn Watts	Rita
Patrick Barr	Insp. MacDonald
Anna Wing	Mrs. Crabtree
Elaine Stevens	Danny's Secretary
George Ghent	Danny's PRO
Reginald Green	Matthieson
Richard Rodney Bennett	Composer

Technical Credits

Keith Waterhouse

Willis Hall

Miriam Brickman	Casting
Joseph Janni	Producer
John Schlesinger	Director
Keith Waterhouse	Screenwriter
Willis Hall	Screenwriter
Malcolm Cooke	Sound Effects
Peter Handford	Sound/Sound Designer