The Lovers!
I've heard it called some things, but Percy Filth just takes the biscuit
88 mins
Reprising the television series roles which first made them household names, Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox star as Geoffrey Scrimshaw and Beryl Battersby, a hesitant, inexperienced, young couple attempting to negotiate the sexual minefield of the ‘permissive’ society. This big-screen transfer of Jack Rosenthal’s hugely likeable sitcom sees old-fashioned girl Beryl continuing to slap down the advances of her frustrated boyfriend, whose clumsy attempts to initiate ‘Percy Filth’ suggest he’s not quite up to speed himself! Like everyone else, Geoffrey and Beryl want to fall in love – or they think they do; like everyone else, since Adam and Eve. But Adam and Eve didn’t live in Manchester in 1972…
Anthony Naylor
Neville
Nikolas Simmonds
Roland
Joan Scott
Beryl's Mum
Stella Moray
Geoffrey's Mum
Bruce Watt
Jeremy
Bernard Latham
'Handsome'
Karen Ford
Foreign Girl
James Snell
Doctor
Mary Henry
Jumble Sale Woman
Ian Gray
Bookstall Assistant
Serena
Stripper
Jack Rosenthal
Writer
Herbert Wise
Director
Maude Onslow
Hairdresser
Barrie Melrose
Assistant Director
Rowland Fowles
Boom Operator
Peter Mullins
Production Design
Emma Porteous
Costume Design
David Gowing
Assistant Editor
George Partleton
Makeup Artist
Robert Huke
Director of Photography
Bernard Gribble
Editor
Brian Simmons
Sound Mixer
Dennis C. Lewiston
Camera Operator
John Brady
Wardrobe Supervisor