What the Butler Saw

Release Date: 1987-05-23

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.

Rating: 1 / 10

Cast

Dinsdale Landen

as Dr Prentice

Prunella Scales

as Mrs Prentice

Timothy West

as Dr Rance

Tyler Butterworth

as Nicholas Beckett

Tessa Peake-Jones

as Geraldine Barclay