Billy Liar (Blu-ray)
one guy ... three girls ... one ring!
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Billy Liar
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: April 28, 2020
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Courtenay & Julie Christie | |
Performer: | Finlay Currie, Leonard Rossiter, Mona Washbourne, Gwendolyn Watts, Wilfred Pickles, Rodney Bewes & Ethel Griffies | |
Directed by | John Schlesinger | |
Edited by | Roger Cherrill | |
Screenplay by | Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall | |
Composition by | Richard Rodney Bennett | |
Art Direction by | Ray Simm | |
Produced by | Joseph Janni | |
Director of Photography: | Denys Coop |
Entertainment Reviews:
100%
TOMATOMETER
...Schlesinger's production remains involving...
Sight and Sound
4 stars out of 5 -- Skulking between temerity and timidity, callousness and innocence, Tom Courtenay dominates the picture...
Empire
5 stars out of 5 -- Directed with gear-shifting gusto by John Schlesinger, BILLY LIAR vividly captures an England in transition...
Total Film
Product Description:
BILLY LIAR was an immediate sensation as first a novel, then a hit play--both written by Keith Waterhouse, who also served as screenwriter on the film. Director John Schlesinger's screen version was a British landmark in the fertile cinema of the late 1950s and early '60s, and launched the career of Julie Christie, who plays Liz, one of Billy's flames. A young Englishman named Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) dreams of escaping from his dull working-class family and his dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. In constant conflict with his parents and with the many women with whom he is romantically involved (he is engaged to two), Billy regularly escapes into a rich fantasy world. Sometimes he imagines himself to be the powerful dictator of a small country. In another fantasy, he wants to become the scriptwriter for a popular comedian on television. Unfortunately, he often blurs the line between fantasy and reality, which is exactly the reason that everybody calls him "Billy Liar."