
The Lovers!
I've heard it called some things, but Percy Filth just takes the biscuit
Reprising the television series roles which first made them household names, Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox star as Geoffrey Scrimshaw and Beryl Battersby, a hesitant, inexperienced, young couple attempting to negotiate the sexual minefield of the ‘permissive’ society. This big-screen transfer of Jack Rosenthal’s hugely likeable sitcom sees old-fashioned girl Beryl continuing to slap down the advances of her frustrated boyfriend, whose clumsy attempts to initiate ‘Percy Filth’ suggest he’s not quite up to speed himself! Like everyone else, Geoffrey and Beryl want to fall in love – or they think they do; like everyone else, since Adam and Eve. But Adam and Eve didn’t live in Manchester in 1972…
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Top Cast

Richard Beckinsale
Geoffrey Scrimshaw

Paula Wilcox
Beryl Battersby

Susan Littler
Sandra

Rosalind Ayres
Veronica
Anthony Naylor
Neville
Nikolas Simmonds
Roland
Joan Scott
Beryl's Mum
Stella Moray
Geoffrey's Mum

John Comer
Geoffrey's Dad
Pamela Moiseiwitsch
Enid
Bruce Watt
Jeremy

Paul Greenwood
Trainee Manager
Bernard Latham
'Handsome'
Karen Ford
Foreign Girl

James Snell
Doctor
Mary Henry
Jumble Sale Woman
Ian Gray
Bookstall Assistant
Serena
Stripper
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