Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his ...
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Title: Jak zrobic kariere w reklamie (1989)
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Denis Dimbleby Bagley
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Julia Bagley
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John Bristol
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Penny Wheelstock
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Monica
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Harry Wax
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Richard
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Maud
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Tweedy Man
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Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his relationship with his wife, his friends and his boss, but also his own body - graphically demonstrated when he grows a large stress-related boil on his shoulder. But when the boil grows eyes and a mouth and starts talking, Bagley really begins to think he's lost his mind. But has he? Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
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pimple cream | pimple | advertising executive | advertising | extreme close up |Taglines:
The Career Where Two Heads Are Better Than OneCertificate:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
29 March 1990 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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$418,053 (USA)Company Credits
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Denis Dimbleby Bagley: Let me try and clarify some of this for you. Best Company Supermarkets are not interested in selling wholesome foods. They are not worried about the nation's health. What is concerning them, is that the nation appears to be getting worried about its health, and that is what's worrying Best Co., because Best Co. wants to go on selling them what it always has, i.e. white breads, baked beans, canned foods, and that suppurating, fat squirting little heart attack traditionally known as ...
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Composed by Camille Saint-Saëns
Conducted by Rick Wentworth
Published by Editions Durand, S.A. Paris-UMP Ltd.
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When the UK's Gold channel showed this film in September 2016, they appear to have had a relatively low quality widescreen NTSC originated version copy of the film. Its unclear if this is due to the original elements being lost or damaged, making a restoration impossible, or a legacy Master Tape mix-up. See more »Goofs
After Bagley has lunch with his wife, she drops him back at the advertising firm's office building, but it is a different building to the one used for the interior scenes, which is the tall red building several hundred yards up the street (visible in the crane shot of their car pulling up), right next to the Lambeth bridge, as we can see from the window view in the scenes in Bagley's and Bristol's offices. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Denis Dimbleby Bagley: Let me try and clarify some of this for you. Best Company Supermarkets are not interested in selling wholesome foods. They are not worried about the nation's health. What is concerning them, is that the nation appears to be getting worried about its health, and that is what's worrying Best Co., because Best Co. wants to go on selling them what it always has, i.e. white breads, baked beans, canned foods, and that suppurating, fat squirting little heart attack traditionally known as ...
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Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 ('Organ Symphony')Composed by Camille Saint-Saëns
Conducted by Rick Wentworth
Published by Editions Durand, S.A. Paris-UMP Ltd.
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Hilarious, bitter satire of adverising, humanity, and personality. Ad exec Dennis Bagley gets so hung up on boils developing a "boilbusters" ad campaign that he grows a malignant boil which takes on its own personality and eventually takes over the show. Grant is perfect in the lead role, the direction and photography are excellent, and the effects cheap but grotesque. There are so many hilarious scenes, I found myself laughing out loud through most of the film even though I saw it by myself! I love the scene where Bagley explains to his wife why the boil only talks to her when she turns away : "He's waiting for you to do it!" A classic, should be sought out by all fans of sadistic humour(especially British, i.e. League of Gentlemen, Monty Python) .