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The Lovers!

59 %|Jan 1, 1973|Comedy, Drama

Reprising the television series roles which first made them household names, Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox star as Geoffrey Scrimshaw and Beryl Battersby, a hesitant, inexperienced, young couple attempting to negotiate the sexual minefield of the ‘permissive’ society. This big-screen transfer of Jack Rosenthal’s hugely likeable sitcom sees old-fashioned girl Beryl continuing to slap down the advances of her frustrated boyfriend, whose clumsy attempts to initiate ‘Percy Filth’ suggest he’s not quite up to speed himself! Like everyone else, Geoffrey and Beryl want to fall in love – or they think they do; like everyone else, since Adam and Eve. But Adam and Eve didn’t live in Manchester in 1972…

Featured Crew

Herbert Wise
Director
Jack Rosenthal
Writer
Robert Huke
Director of Photography
Bernard Gribble
Editor
Peter Mullins
Production Design
Emma Porteous
Costume Design
Maude Onslow
Hairdresser
George Partleton
Makeup Artist

Cast

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Richard Beckinsale
Geoffrey Scrimshaw
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Paula Wilcox
Beryl Battersby
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Joan Scott
Beryl's Mum
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Stella Moray
Geoffrey's Mum
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John Comer
Geoffrey's Dad
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Paul Greenwood
Trainee Manager
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Bernard Latham
'Handsome'
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Karen Ford
Foreign Girl
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Mary Henry
Jumble Sale Woman
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Ian Gray
Bookstall Assistant
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Serena
Stripper