Billy Liar
98 minutes,
UK (1963), PG
Hopeless fantasist Tom Courtenay dreams of escaping life in a northern town at the start of the 1960s in this adaptation of Keith Waterhouse's novel and play
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Billy Liar: Six years before he gave us Midnight Cowboy, director John Schlesinger assembled a cast of soon-to-be-famous faces for this pivotal tragi-comedy.
Billy Fisher (Courtenay) lives with his parents and works for scornful undertaker Shadrack (Rossiter)...
Read the Billy Liar full reviewBilly Fisher (Courtenay) lives with his parents and works for scornful undertaker Shadrack (Rossiter)...

