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The Lovers!

"I've heard it called some things, but Percy Filth just takes the biscuit"

1973-01-01
5.9
en 88m
ComedyDrama
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…

Director

Herbert Wise

Writer

Jack Rosenthal

Director of Photography

Robert Huke

Editor

Bernard Gribble

Production Design

Peter Mullins

Costume Design

Emma Porteous

Status

Released

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Companies

  • British Lion Films

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