Billy Liar [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Rialto Pictures ; Studio Canal ; an Anglo-Amalgamated presentation ; a Joseph Janni production for VIC Films in association with Waterhall Productions ; screenplay by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall ; produced by Joseph Janni ; directed by John Schlesinger.
Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne, Ethel Griffies, Finlay Currie, Gwendolyn Watts, Helen Fraser, Leonard Rossiter, Rodney Bewes, George Innes, Leslie Randall, Patrick Barr, Ernest Clark, Godfrey Winn. Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. Based on the novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall.
Summary:
Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees, and an insecure dead-end job at an undertakers.
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