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What the Butler Saw (1987)

1 | May 23, 1987 (GB) | | 01:25

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.

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Dinsdale Landen
Dr Prentice
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Prunella Scales
Mrs Prentice
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Timothy West
Dr Rance
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Tyler Butterworth
Nicholas Beckett
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Tessa Peake-Jones
Geraldine Barclay
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Bryan Pringle
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