Undertaker's clerk Billy (Tom Courtenay) escapes his dreary small town existence in a 1950s Northern town by living in a fantasy world where he realises his ambitions. When his job, unsympathetic working class family and two fiancees threaten to become too much, he meets fashionable Julie Christie, who offers him his one chance for real escape.
Director: John Schlesinger
Producer: Joseph Janni
Writer: Keith Waterhouse
Writer: Willis Hall
Music: Richard Rodney Bennett
Cinematographer: Denys Coop
Actor: Tom Courtenay
Actor: Julie Christie
Actor: Mona Washbourne
Actor: Wilfred Pickles
Actor: Ethel Griffies
Actor: Rodney Bewes
Actor: Finlay Currie
Actor: Leonard Rossiter
Actor: Helen Fraser
Music: Richard Rodney Bennett