Big-screen version of the TV sit-com about the ups-and-downs of a young courting couple's relationship.
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Title: The Lovers! (1973)
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Cast
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| Richard Beckinsale | ... | Geoffrey Scrimshaw | |
| Paula Wilcox | ... | Beryl Battersby | |
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Susan Littler | ... | Sandra |
| Rosalind Ayres | ... | Veronica | |
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Anthony Naylor | ... | Neville |
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Nikolas Simmonds | ... | Roland |
| Joan Scott | ... | Beryl's Mum | |
| John Comer | ... | Geoffrey's Dad | |
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Stella Moray | ... | Geoffrey's Mum |
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Pamela Moiseiwitsch | ... | Enid (as Pamela Moiseiwitch) |
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Bruce Watt | ... | Jeremy |
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Paul Greenwood | ... | Trainee Manager (Party) |
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Bernard Latham | ... | 'Handsome' (Party) |
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Karen Ford | ... | Foreign Girl (Party) |
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James Snell | ... | Doctor |
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Big-screen version of the TV sit-com about the ups-and-downs of a young courting couple's relationship.
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situation comedy | young lovers | running gag | sitting room | sexual joke |Genres:
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Geoffrey Scrimshaw: Hi, I'm Geoffrey... I don't happen to be attached.
Beryl Battersby: Hi, I'm Beryl... I don't happen to be surprised.
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Performed by Tony Christie
Written by Mitch Murray (Music) & Peter Callander (Lyrics)
By permission of MCA Records
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Two of the young stars of this film, died in their early thirties. Richard Beckinsale (Geoffrey) of a heart attack, aged 31, in 1979 and Susan Littler (Sandra) of cancer, aged 34, in 1982. See more »Quotes
[first words when they meet for the first time]Geoffrey Scrimshaw: Hi, I'm Geoffrey... I don't happen to be attached.
Beryl Battersby: Hi, I'm Beryl... I don't happen to be surprised.
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Love and Rainy WeatherPerformed by Tony Christie
Written by Mitch Murray (Music) & Peter Callander (Lyrics)
By permission of MCA Records
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Country:
UKLanguage:
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5 October 1973 (UK) See more »Filming Locations:
Manchester United Football Club, Old Trafford Football Stadium, Sir Matt Busby Way, Old Trafford, Trafford, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK See more »Company Credits
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A British comedy; A story set in Manchester, about a hesitant, inexperienced, young couple attempting to negotiate the 'permissive' society. This film is a spin-off from a British sitcom, which eschewed the two TV series to tell the story of unlikely loverbirds. It is set against the backdrop of greater sexual freedoms and independence of the early 1970s with women growing in confidence and aspiring to true parity with men in their sexual and professional lives, rejecting futures dominated by marriage, motherhood and domestic drudgery. The gauche comedy is entertaining thanks to actors Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox, and innocent fun for the naive and clumsy interplay and playful courting. Wilcox delightfully combines being prude with bourgeois snobbery, while Beckinsale is wonderfully vulnerable and helpless as he veers between laddism and romance nervously. The film isn't directed with much panache, and it is a slight story, but it has a quaint dialogue.