What the Butler Saw

What the Butler Saw 1987

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.

  • Released: 1987-05-23
  • Runtime: 85 minutes
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  • Stars: Tyler Butterworth, Tessa Peake-Jones, Dinsdale Landen, Bryan Pringle, Prunella Scales, Timothy West
  • Director: Barry Davis