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Release Date:
January 1, 1973
Original Title:
The Lovers!
Genres:
Comedy | Drama
Production Companies:
British Lion Films
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
GB: 12
Runtime: 88
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…
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Assistant Director:
Barrie Melrose
Assistant Editor:
David Gowing
Boom Operator:
Rowland Fowles
Camera Operator:
Dennis C. Lewiston
Costume Design:
Emma Porteous
Director:
Herbert Wise
Director of Photography:
Robert Huke
Editor:
Bernard Gribble
Hairdresser:
Maude Onslow
Makeup Artist:
George Partleton
Production Design:
Peter Mullins
Sound Mixer:
Brian Simmons
Wardrobe Supervisor:
John Brady
Writer:
Jack Rosenthal
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