Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Tom Courtenay delivers a star-making turn as William Terrence Fisher (& Billy Liar&) in one of the most memorable & universally acclaimed films of the 60s Running from an unsympathetic working-class family a pair of demanding fiancees & an insecure job at an undertakers Billy escapes Walter Mitty-like into a world of fantasy where he can realize his dream ambitions As work & family pressures build to new intolerable levels Liz (an early charismatic turn from Julie Christie) enters his drab life & offers Billy the one real chance he&ll ever get to leave the past behind Scripted by Keith Waterhouse from his own novel & sensitively directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) Billy Liar is one of the few comedies of the British & New Wave& marrying visual & verbal wit with a rather poignant rumination on the futility of dreams Actors Tom Courtenay Julie Christie Wilfred Pickles Mona Washbourne Finlay Currie Rodney Bewes Leonard Rossiter & George Innes Director John Schlesinger Certificate PGYear 1963 Languages English