Billy Liar - 50th Anniversary Edition (1963)
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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 (Midnight Cowboy), 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