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What the Butler Saw

3.019871h 25mMovie

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…

DirectorBarry Davis
WriterJoe Orton
ProducerShaun Sutton

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Cast · Directed by Barry Davis

DLDinsdale Landen
Dinsdale Landen
Dr Prentice
PSPrunella Scales
Prunella Scales
Mrs Prentice
TWTimothy West
Timothy West
Dr Rance
TBTyler Butterworth
Tyler Butterworth
Nicholas Beckett
TPTessa Peake-Jones
Tessa Peake-Jones
Geraldine Barclay
BPBryan Pringle
Bryan Pringle
Sergeant Match

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What the Butler Saw hasn't started streaming in Canada yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around July 11, 1987. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.