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Work Is a Four Letter Word (1967)

Director: Peter Hall

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From Time Out Film Guide

A disastrous reworking of Henry Livings' play Eh?, recognisable only in that the hero still grows aphrodisiac mushrooms in the boiler-room of the automated factory where he works and is currently honeymooning with his new bride. Livings' wonderful mental slapstick (with not so much his characters' bottoms as their minds exposed in long woolly underwear as their spiritual trousers fall down) has been reduced to a pitifully trite satire on automation. A few amusing bits survive the gaudily trendy direction.

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Cast & crew

Director: Peter Hall

Producer: Thomas Clyde

Cast: David Warner, Cilla Black, Elizabeth Spriggs, Zia Mohyeddin, Joe Gladwin, Julie May, Alan Howard full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 93 mins


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