Billy Liar (DVD) (UK Import)

Directed by John Schlesinger

Starring: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Mona Washbourne, Wilfred Pickles, Ethel Griffies, Finlay Currie, Helen Fraser, Rodney Bewes, Leonard Rossiter
Contributors: Joseph Janni, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, Richard Rodney Bennett, Denys Coop
Studio: StudioCanal
Genre: Modern Classic
Main Language: English
Region: Region 2
Release Date: 6 May 2013
Originally Issued: 1963
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Cert: (PG) Parental Guidance.
Run Time: 96 minutes

Description

John Schlesinger directs this comedy drama starring Julie Christie and Tom Courtenay. Undertaker's clerk Billy (Courtenay) escapes his dreary small town existence in a 1950s Northern town by living in a fantasy world where he realises his ambitions. When his job, unsympathetic family and two girlfriends threaten to become too much, he meets fashionable Liz (Christie), who offers him his one chance for real escape.

Special Features

• Interactive Menus
• Bonus Footage
• Trailers
• Interviews: Richard Ayoade, Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley
• Other Documentary: 'Remembering Billy Liar with Tom Courtenay and Helen Fraser'