Rent The Battle of the Sexes (1960)

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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'...
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Directors:
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:
19/07/2004
Run Time:
80 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
Subtitles:
None
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
B & W
Bonus:
  • Trailers
  • About the Film
  • Star Biographies
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

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