Billy Liar
- 1963 film
Billy Fisher is a young dreamer working for a funeral director who is constantly retreating into a fantasy world. Stars Tom Courtenay, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne, Ethel Griffies, Finlay Currie and more.
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Billy Liar - 50th Anniversary Edition
Tom Courtenay delivers a star-making turn as William Terrence Fisher ('Billy Liar') in one of the most memorable and universally acclaimed films of the 60s.
Running from an unsympathetic working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancées and an insecure job at an undertakers, Billy escapes, Walter Mitty-like, into a world of fantasy where he can realize his dream ambitions. As work and family pressures build to new intolerable levels, Liz (an early, charismatic turn from Julie Christie), enters his drab life and offers Billy the one real chance he'll ever get to leave the past behind.
Scripted by Keith Waterhouse from his own novel, and sensitively directed by John Schlesinger, Billy Liar is one of the few comedies of the British 'New Wave', marrying visual and verbal wit with a rather poignant rumination on the futility of dreams.
Special features:
Remembering Billy Liar with Tom Courtenay and Helen Fraser
Interview with Richard Ayoade
A look through the Keith Waterhouse Archive with British Library Curator Zoe Wilcox
Interview with Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley
Stills gallery
Trailer
First released: Sunday 5th May 2013
Blu-ray
DVD- Distributor: STUDIOCANAL
- Region: B
- Discs: 1
- Catalogue: OPTBD2526
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- Distributor: STUDIOCANAL
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Catalogue: OPTD2526
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