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Butley (1974) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
124 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1974 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Harold Pinter

Written By:
Harold Pinter
Simon Gray

Actors:
Alan Bates ..... Ben Butley
Jessica Tandy ..... Edna Shaft
Richard O'Callaghan ..... Joey Keyston
Susan Engel ..... Anne Butley
Michael Byrne ..... Reg Nuttall
Georgina Hale ..... Miss Heasman
Simon Rouse ..... Mr. Gardner
John Savident ..... James
Oliver Maguire ..... Train Passenger
Darien Angadi ..... Male Student
Colin Haigh ..... Male Student
Lindsay Ingram ..... Female Student
Patti Love ..... Female Student
Belinda Low ..... Female Student
Derrick O'Connor ..... Irishman in pub
Susan Wooldridge ..... Female Student

Synopsis:

The American Film Theatre has made movies of a number of significant theatrical performances, including Laurence Olivier's Othello. Another of these filmed theatricals is Simon Gray's Butley, which was brought to the screen by playwright Harold Pinter, and which features an astonishing performance by Alan Bates. The story focuses on one very bad day in the life of Butley (Bates), a feisty, sharp-tongued, lazy and pathetic professor of English. His professional ascendancy is challenged by a slick, accomplished woman many years his junior; his ex-wife gives him conniptions when she announces her remarriage to someone he cannot bear; and his male lover of several years chooses this time to announce that he is leaving him for a sweeter-tempered but very ordinary man of the sort Butley despises. Bleak though this sounds, Butley's unconquerable wit and biting repartee transform this otherwise tragic tale into something of a celebration of survival.

Butley, an English lecturer at a London university college, vents his bitterness over a failed marriage on his colleagues and students.

An English professor finds his life crumbling around him.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 22 December, 2015.