The Lovers!

The Lovers! (1973)

I've heard it called some things, but Percy Filth just takes the biscuit

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…

Date of release
1973-01-01
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Herbert Wise

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Lovers

The Lovers! is a 1973 British comedy film based on the 1970-71 Granada Television sitcom The Lovers. It follows the courtship of two young people from Manchester, England, Geoffrey Scrimshaw and Beryl Battersby.

Production

The movie was filmed in 1972 and featured views of various locations in Manchester of the time, including George Best's "Edwardia" boutique and Manchester United's Old Trafford football stadium. The scenes inside the railway station where Geoffrey and Beryl meet were filmed at Windsor & Eton Central railway station. The film premiered at the Odeon Cinema, Manchester on 14 May 1973.

The theme song, Love and Rainy Weather, sung by Tony Christie and written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander, was released as a single by MCA in 1973.

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