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United Kingdom. Language. English. Budget. $800,000 [2] Work Is a Four-Letter Word (also known as Work Is a 4-Letter Word) is a 1968 British satirical comedy film directed by Peter Hall and starring David Warner and Cilla Black, in her only acting role in a cinematic film. The film was not well received by critics even though it was based on ...
Aug 23, 2017 · Starring David Warner and Cilla Black.
- 86 min
- 25.6K
- Rachel Servo
Work Is a Four Letter Word: Directed by Peter Hall. With David Warner, Cilla Black, Zia Mohyeddin, David Waller. Everyone is employed by the ultra-modern DICE Corporation, but Valentine Brose would rather stay at home to tend his psychedelic mushrooms.
- (140)
- Comedy, Fantasy
- Peter Hall
- 1968-09-25
Review by Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★½ 1. "'Work Is A Four Letter Word' I hated. That was the last straw, really. I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs. That was it, really. I made a decision that I was going to get away on holiday. The only place I could think of was L.A. L.A. was the only place I knew where there'd be sunshine ...
- Peter Hall
Julie May. Mr Price. David Waller. Reverend Mort. Alan Howard. Director. Peter Hall. David Warner and scouse songbird Cilla Black star in this delightfully absurd film, set in a near-future dominated by automation, courtesy of the ubiquitous DICE Organisation. Young Valentine Brose (Warner) is on a mission to grow a crop of psychedelic ...
Peter Hall. Director. Jeremy Brooks. Writer. 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.
Livings' wonderful mental slapstick (with not so much his characters' bottoms as their minds exposed in long woolly underwear as their spiritual trousers fall down) has been reduced to a pitifully ...
