What the Butler Saw

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What the Butler Saw (1987)

Directed by Barry Davis

· 1h 25m

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.

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Cast

Dinsdale Landen Dr Prentice Prunella Scales Mrs Prentice Timothy West Dr Rance Tyler Butterworth Nicholas Beckett Tessa Peake-Jones Geraldine Barclay Bryan Pringle Sergeant Match

Crew

Director
Barry Davis
Writer
Joe Orton
Producer
Shaun Sutton

Details

Release date
1987-05-23
Runtime
1h 25m
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United Kingdom
Production
BBC