Billy Liar 4K UHD + Blu-ray Limited Collector's Edition

Tom Courtenay delivers a star-making turn as William Terrence Fisher (Billy Liar) in one of the most memorable and universally acclaimed films of the 60s. Running from an unsympathetic working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancées and 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 and family pressures build to new intolerable levels, Liz (an early, charismatic turn from Julie Christie), enters his drab life and offers Billy the one real chance he’ll ever get to leave the past behind. Scripted by Keith Waterhouse from his own novel, and sensitively directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy), Billy Liar is one of the few comedies of the British ‘New Wave’, marrying visual and verbal wit with a rather poignant rumination on the futility of dreams.
 

Extras:
 
Include 64-page booklet, poster and calendar
NEW - Billy Liar: Alice Lowe and Danny Leigh in Conversation
NEW The Women of Billy Liar by Samira Ahmed
Audio commentary with John Schlesinger, Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie
Audio commentary by Kat Ellinger
Remembering Billy Liar with Tom Courtenay and Helen Fraser
Interview with Richard Ayode
A look through the Keith Waterhouse Archive with British Library Curator Zoe Wilcox
Interview with Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley
Region Code:
Region A,B,C
Duration:
99 minutes
Extras:
 
Language(s): English, Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English, Interactive Menu, Booklet, Commentary: John Schlesinger (director), Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie (actors); Kat Ellinger, Documentaries: 'The Women of Billy Liar' by Samira Ahmed; 'Billy Liar: Alice Lowe and Danny Leigh in Conversation'; 'Remembering Billy Liar with Tom Courtenay and Helen Fraser', Interviews: Richard Ayoade; Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne), Poster; Calendar; A look through the Keith Waterhouse Archive with British Library curator Zoe Wilcox