DVD
Billy Liar/ Canal+Image UK Ltd.
Call Number
- DVD COMEDY (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Performers
Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie.
Publication Information
[S.l.] : Home Vision Entertainment, c2001.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees, and an insecure dead-end job at a company selling funeral furnishings. The world seems to offer the tantalizing possibility of freedom, embodied by Liz, a girl who in Billy's opinion is crazy, but free. But for all his wild imaginings, Billy may be too afraid to escape from the drab reality that imprisons him.
Notes
DVD format ; Dolby digital mono.
Videodisc release of the 1963 motion picture.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Not rated.
Based on the novel by Keith Waterhouse and the play by Waterhouse and Willis Hall.
Special features include: Audio commentary featuring director John Schlesinger and actors Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie ; excerpts from "Northern lights" an episode of the BBC series "Hollywood U.K.: British cinema in the sixties" hosted by Richard Lester ; original theatrical trailer ; RSDL dual-layer edition.
Presented in a widescreen format to preserve the original theatrical aspect ratio (2.35:1) ; enhanced for widescreen TVs.