Work Is a 4-Letter Word – 1968 | 93 mins | Comedy | Colour

Plot Synopsis

Peter Hall’s disjointed Swinging Sixties adaptation of Henry Livings’ surrealistic play Eh?, is recognisable only in that the eccentric hero (David Warner) is still obsessed with growing hallucinogenic magic mushrooms in the boiler-room of the automated local power station where he works, a job he only accepts to placate his fiancée (60s songstress Cilla Black). Livings’ wonderful mental slapstick has been reduced to a pitifully trite satire on the highly-automated world of the near future. Occasionally entertaining but the frenzied direction lacks focus and purpose.