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Billy Liar

on BBC Two England

Tonight's film in this season of British films by some of the distinguished directors and writers who brought a new style to the cinema in the 60s
Starring Tom Courtenay with Julie Christie

Billy Fisher's real world is bounded by a dull Northern town, a job as clerk in an undertaker's office, a quarrelsome relationship with his parents and a potentially explosive one with two girls to whom he has simultaneously become engaged. A compulsive liar, Billy is also ruler of his own fantasy kingdom of Ambrosia, to which he retreats when circumstances become too much for him -which is often.
Tom Courtenay plays Billy in this adaptation by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall of their play.
(This Week's Films: page 16)

Contributors

Screenplay/Based on the play by:
Keith Waterhouse
Screenplay/Based on the play by:
Willis Hall
Director:
John Schlesinger
Billy Fisher:
Tom Courtenay
Liz:
Julie Christie
Geoffrey Fisher:
Wilfred Pickles
Alice Fisher:
Mona Washbourne
Florence (Grandmother):
Ethel Griffies
Duxbury:
Finlay Currie
Arthur Crabtree:
Rodney Bewes
Barbara:
Helen Fraser
Eric Stamp:
George Innes
Shadrack:
Leonard Rossiter
Rita:
Gwendolyn Watts
Det-Insp MacDonald:
Patrick Barr
Disc Jockey:
Godfrey Winn
Prison Governor:
Ernest Clark

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