What the Butler Saw

Overview

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 23, 1987

Original language

English

Production

BBC

Cast

Timothy West,Tyler Butterworth,Prunella Scales,Dinsdale Landen,Tessa Peake-Jones,Bryan Pringle

Director

Barry Davis

Writer

Joe Orton

Producer

Shaun Sutton

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0166875