Rent The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
3.4 of 5 from 73 ratings
1h 20min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- The sleepy staff of Macpherson's traditional Scottish tweed firm get a rude awakening when young Macpherson (Robert Morley) hires feisty American efficiency expert Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings). She advocates new-fangled horrors like automation and - ghastliest of all - 'synthetic fibre'. Can nothing stop her? Nothing, perhaps, but meek accountant Mr Martin (Sellers). Beneath that placid surface, still waters run deep; to balance the books, he decides, he must erase the 'error'...
- Actors:
- Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Jameson Clark, Ernest Thesiger, Donald Pleasence, Moultrie Kelsall, Alex MacKenzie, Roddy McMillan, Michael Goodliffe, James Gibson, Noel Howlett, Abe Barker, Gordon Phillott, William Mervyn, Norman Macowan, MacDonald Parke, Patricia Hayes, Eric Woodburn, Donald Bisset
- Directors:
- Charles Crichton
- Producers:
- Monja Danischewsky
- Voiced By:
- Sam Wanamaker
- Writers:
- James Thurber, Monja Danischewsky
- Studio:
- Odyssey Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy
- Collections:
- All the Twos: 1902-62, Films & TV by topic, The Big Match: Gregory's Girl v Bend It Like Beckham, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Charles Crichton, Top 10 Films By Year, Top 10 Films of 1959
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/04/2020
- Run Time:
- 84 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Hancock's Hard Boiled Eggs: Sellers' contemporary, the Lad from East Cheam himself, Tony Hancock, appears with 'The Battle of the Sexes' Patricia Hayes in this cracking collection of 11 egg-cellent Egg Marketing Board adverts from 1966
- A Ghost of a Chance (1968, 50 mins): bonus feature-length fun for all the family as Sellers' chum Graham Stark stars with Ronnie Barker, Patricia Hayes, Jimmy Edwards, Bernard Cribbins and Terry Scott in a corking Children's Film Foundation comedy
- Images of Edinburgh in Archive Film: an atmospheric selection of rarely-seen short films capturing Scotland's capital in the first half of the 20th century, from the vaults of the BFI National Archive
- Woolly Wonders: evocative 1940's archive films of traditional Scottish clothmaking, shot in colour by the great Jack Cardiff
- Image Gallery
