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Billy Liar

1963, Movie, NR, 98 mins

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One of the seminal British working-class films of the 1960s, John Schlesinger's third feature is a first-rate comedy-fantasy that stars Tom Courtenay as Billy Fisher, an incorrigable dreamer who works for a funeral director. No one will argue the plot's derivation -- James Thurber's classic short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" -- but Billy is also a pathological liar who, as Oscar Wilde once said, doesn't lie for gain, just for the sheer joy of lying. The luminous Julie Christie costars in one of her earliest roles. Read the complete review for Billy Liar

Billy Liar: Cast & Details

Year: 1963
Rated NR
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 Tom Courtenay: Billy Fisher
Julie Christie: Liz
Wilfred Pickles: Geoffrey Fisher
Mona Washbourne: Alice Fisher
Ethel Griffies: Florence
Finlay Currie: Duxbury

 

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