Movie · 1968
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
“This Film Is Perfectly Normal ... Only The Characters In It Are A Bit Odd.”
Released 15 September 1968 93 min Comedy More from 1968 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
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How old were they?
Joe Gladwin
as Pa Brose
Paul Dawkins
as Powerplant Guard
David Waller
as Mr Price
Royston Tickner
as Train Guard
Julie May
as Mrs Dorrick
Derek Royle
as Briggs
Elizabeth Spriggs
as Mrs Murray
Tony Church
as Mr Arkwright
Clifford Rose
as Registry Office Clerk
Zia Mohyeddin
as Dr Aly Narayana
Jan Holden
as Mrs Price
Alan Howard
as Reverend Mort
David Warner
as Valentine Brose
John Steiner
as Anthony
Cilla Black
as Betty Dorrick
Cyril Cross
as Commissionaire
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The numbers
37years between the oldest and youngest billed
62Joe Gladwin — oldest on the call sheet
25Cilla Black — youngest billed
39average age of the credited cast