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Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees and an insecure dead-end job as an undertaker.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors, Ltd, Home Vision (Firm)
Other Authors: Courtenay, Tom, Christie, Julie, 1941-, Watts, Gwendolyn, Waterhouse, Keith, Hall, Willis
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Home Vision Entertainment, [2001]
Edition:Widescreen ed.
Series:Criterion collection.
Subjects:
Films for the hearing impaired.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Description
Summary:Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees and an insecure dead-end job as an undertaker.
Item Description:English soundtrack with English subtitles.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Videodisc release of the 1963 motion picture.
Based on the book and play by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall.
Special features : audio commentary by John Schlesinger, Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie, excerpts from "Northern lights" and theatrical trailer.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD ; Dolby digital ; dual layer ; aspect ratio 2.35:1.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Denys Coop ; editor, Roger Cherrill ; music, Richard Rodney Bennett.
ISBN:0780024311