Work Is a 4-Letter Word
5.3
“This Film Is Perfectly Normal ... Only The Characters In It Are A Bit Odd.”
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
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Cast
32 people
David Warner
Valentine Brose
Known for
Titanic
Tron
Cilla Black
Betty Dorrick
Also in
Blind Date
Cilla's Comedy Six
Peter Hall
Thomas Clyde
Jeremy Brooks
Alan Howard
Reverend Mort
Known for
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The Return of the Musketeers
Henry Livings
Hal Haysom
John Steiner
Anthony
Known for
Caligula
Shock
Michael Stainer-Hitchens
Zia Mohyeddin
Dr Aly Narayana
Known for
Lawrence of Arabia
They Came from Beyond Space
David Waller
Mr Price
Known for
The Secret Garden
Peter Hall Director · Jeremy Brooks Writer Guy Woolfenden Composer
Budget $800K · United States release September 25, 1968 · Produced in United Kingdom
Box office
Budget
$800,000
Production
Cavalcade Films
Production
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · September 15, 1968
Theatrical
United States · September 25, 1968
Theatrical
Germany
April 11, 1973
Hungary
July 22, 1977 · TV premiere
Sweden
August 20, 1969
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