Billy Liar
one guy ... three girls ... one ring!
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 27, 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:
Rating: B --
Even though it's a seminal movie of the sixties, it never reached me emotionally.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Finally, of course, the film is Tom Courtenay's. In this, his finest part so far, no praise could be too much and yet all seems impossible.
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Sight and Sound
It's the director's most assured work, and it includes Courtenay's greatest performance. The young actor balances zestiness and frustration, levity and rage, and never soft-pedals his character's more unsympathetic tendencies.
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New Statesman
... this portrait of ambition aching to break out of suffocating conformity and social expectation is viewed through the prism of fantasy and puckish humor...
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Turner Classic Movies Online
Rating: B+ --
A key work of the New British Cinema, Billy Liar features the impressive debut of director John Schlesinger and his first teaming with Julie Christie (before Darling).
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EmanuelLevy.Com
At all kinds of points, one has the feeling that Schlesinger's film is running away from him; but there's also the impression of a talent energetic enough to risk even the occasional howling blunder.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
Rating: 4/5 --
One of the great movies of the 1960's.
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New York Times
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."
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 73,748
- UPC: 738329245290
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