Billy Liar
(2025, original release: 1963)

Fiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
StudioCanal, 1963
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2025
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
16822039
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

Billy Fisher is a lazy, wildly inventive and irresponsible clerk in a north country town, who defrauds his employers of the petty cash. Unable to accept the drab reality of life, Billy escapes into a world of fantasy, imagining he is a successful man of the world in various situations. Communication at home is uneasy; his inexplicable lying shocks his parents. But when he becomes engaged to two girls at the same time and invents a demand for his non-existent writing talents, his troubles become more complex. That is, until he meets Liz, a beautiful and understanding girl, who appreciates the creative instincts hidden behind his dreams

Film

In Process Record

Ethel Griffies, Finlay Currie, Julie Christie, Mona Washbourne, Tom Courtenay, Wilfred Pickles

Originally produced by StudioCanal in 1963

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Additional Credits