Everyone is employed by the ultra-modern DICE Corporation but Valentine Brose would rather stay at home to tend his psychedelic mushrooms.
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| David Warner | ... | Valentine Brose | |
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Cilla Black | ... | Betty Dorrick |
| Zia Mohyeddin | ... | Dr. Aly Narayana | |
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David Waller | ... | Mr. Price |
| Elizabeth Spriggs | ... | Mrs. Murray | |
| Alan Howard | ... | Reverend Mort | |
| Jan Holden | ... | Mrs. Price | |
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Tony Church | ... | Mr. Arkwright |
| Joe Gladwin | ... | Pa Brose | |
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Julie May | ... | Mrs. Dorrick |
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Derek Royle | ... | Briggs |
| John Steiner | ... | Anthony | |
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Cyril Cross | ... | Commissionaire |
| Clifford Rose | ... | Registry Office Clerk | |
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Paul Dawkins | ... | Powerplant Guard |
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Everyone is employed by the ultra-modern DICE Corporation but Valentine Brose would rather stay at home to tend his psychedelic mushrooms.
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25 September 1968 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Written by Don Black & Guy Woolfenden
Sung by Cilla Black
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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. Many of the actors in this film also members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Also stars Beatles' friend and recording artist Cilla Black, but I date myself. If you can find this movie, watch it. It's twisted. Right up there with 'Billy Liar'. David Warner is perfect, a creepy combination of disaffected and keenly focused. Oh, where has this movie gone?