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    The Lovers! 1973 POSTER

    The Lovers!

    1973

    English

    6.1

    2

    Comedy

    Romance

    Herbert Wise Herbert Wise Director Paula Wilcox Paula Wilcox as Beryl Battersby Margaret Flint Margaret Flint as Bookstall Manageress Rosalind Ayres Rosalind Ayres as Veronica - Blonde Mary Henry Mary Henry as Woman
    Reprising the television series roles which first made them household names, Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox star as Geoffrey Scrimshaw and Beryl Battersby, a hesitant, inexperienced, young couple attempting to negotiate the sexual minefield of the ‘permissive’ society. This big-screen transfer of Jack Rosenthal’s hugely likeable sitcom sees old-fashioned girl Beryl continuing to slap down the advances of her frustrated boyfriend, whose clumsy attempts to initiate ‘Percy Filth’ suggest he’s not quite up to speed himself! Like everyone else, Geoffrey and Beryl want to fall in love – or they think they do; like everyone else, since Adam and Eve. But Adam and Eve didn’t live in Manchester in 1972…
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