Directed by john schlesinger, it stars tom courtenay who had understudied albert finney in the west end theatre adaptation of the novel as billy, and julie christie as liz, one of his three girlfriends. British filming locations for the movie billy liar 1963 including maps, screenshots, and other nearby film locations. Throughout the movie, billy is frustrated as unmarried, respectably broughtup young chaps of that period tended to be and he is moreover mightily fed up. Deftly veering from gritty realism to flamboyant fantasy, billy liar is a dazzling and uproarious classic. All the supporting cast, from mr shadrack, billy s family and girlfriends played very well to be the plastic reality thats driving billy insane. Throughout the movie, billy is frustrated as unmarried, respectably broughtup young chaps of that period.
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