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Butley. (film) Butley is a 1974 American-British drama film directed by Harold Pinter and starring Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Engel, and Michael Byrne. It is an adaptation from Simon Gray 's 1971 play of same name. It was produced by Ely Landau and released through Landau's American Film Theatre .
Butley: Directed by Harold Pinter. With Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale, Michael Byrne. An English professor finds his life crumbling around him.
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- Drama, Romance
- Harold Pinter
- 1976-04
Butley is one of the most affecting characters of modern theater. He tries to bind people to himself with sarcasm, insult, and a merciless eye for their vulnerabilities. Eventually, it seems, he always fails. But the way Alan Bates plays him (and Bates, who created the role on the London stage, knows him as well as anybody), his mind is still ...
Butley is a 1974 American-British drama film directed by Harold Pinter and starring Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Engel, and Michael ...
Butley. Directed by influential British playwright, Harold Pinter, Ben Butley (Alan Bates) is an embittered English professor whose male lover leaves him on the same day his estranged wife (Susan ...
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- Harold Pinter
- R
- Alan Bates
Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
- 127 min
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Caustic, feisty, and lazy English professor Butley is having a very bad day. A much younger woman challenges his ascendancy at work, his ex-wife announces her marriage to a man he cannot stand, and his male lover tells him that he is leaving him for another man. .
