one guy ... three girls ... one ring!
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
- 6.8
- 1963
- Released
- 1h 38m
Tom Courtenay
William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher
Julie Christie
Liz
Wilfred Pickles
Geoffrey Fisher
Mona Washbourne
Alice Fisher
Ethel Griffies
Grandma Florence
Finlay Currie
Duxbury
Gwendolyn Watts
Rita
Helen Fraser
Barbara
Leonard Rossiter
Emanuel Shadrack
Rodney Bewes
Arthur Crabtree
George Innes
Stamp
Leslie Randall
Danny Boon
Patrick Barr
Inspector MacDonald
Ernest Clark
Prison Governor
Godfrey Winn
Disc Jockey
Jack Cunningham
Ticket Examiner (uncredited)
Harry Landis
Man on Train (uncredited)E. V. H. Emmett
Newsreel Commentator (uncredited)
Anna Wing
Mrs. Crabtree (uncredited)
Sheila Fearn
Telephonist (uncredited)Muriel Day
Singer - Dance Hall (uncredited)Lester Leigh
Band Leader - Dance Hall (uncredited)Reginald Green
Mr. Matthieson (uncredited)
Margaret Lacey
Mrs. Matthieson (uncredited)
Robin Parkinson
Jeweller's Assistant (uncredited)David Scase
Man in the Record Shop (uncredited)
Jessie Robins
Large Woman in Hospital (uncredited)Graham Rigby
Supermarket Manager (uncredited)
Jim Brady
Prisoner Escort (uncredited)
Neville Smith
Youth (uncredited)Leslie Lawton
Youth (uncredited)
John Tordoff
Youth in Wimpy Bar (uncredited)Flo Fallows
Prostitute (uncredited)Alice Woods
Prostitute (uncredited)
Bryan Mosley
Bit Part (uncredited)Aleksander Browne
Bit Part (uncredited)James Byron
Serviceman (uncredited)Douglas Clarke
Serviceman (uncredited)Alan Clayton
Serviceman (uncredited)George Ghent
Danny's PRO (uncredited)Topsy Jane
Liz (uncredited)Natalie Kent
Bit Part (uncredited)Ted Morris
Funeral Driver (uncredited)Elisabeth Murray
Bit Part (uncredited)Stuart Myers
Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)James Payne
Man in Station Cafe (uncredited)George Spence
Man in Crowd (uncredited)Elaine Stevens
Danny's Secretary (uncredited)William Wymar
Army Man (uncredited)
Released
en
$35,609.00
- #dreams
- #northern england
- #based on novel or book
- #lie
- #yorkshire
- #train
- #ambrosia
- #bradford
Reviews
Tom Courtenay is "Billy", a lad whose grasp on reality is, well, tenuous. In his dreams, he is a brave and valiant life-saving sort of fellow. In real life he is a lowly clerk who works for a funeral director and lives with his increasingly exasperated parents. His problems only increase as he struggles to differentiate between his real life and that in his fictional land of "Ambrosia" and as his
<i>Billy Liar</i> is a 1963 British film that captures the monumental changes of the era: the sexual revolution and the destruction of England's old town centres in modernisation schemes. In Bradford, Yorkshire young Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is working a soul-crushing job in a funeral home and suffering daily the derision of his elderly parents. His only escape from this drudgery is his active