The Adding Machine (film)
The Adding Machine is a 1969 American-British fantasy comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Jerome Epstein and starring Milo O'Shea, Phyllis Diller, Billie Whitelaw, Sydney Chaplin, and Raymond Huntley. It is based on a stage production of the 1923 Elmer Rice play directed by Jerome Epstein in Los Angeles in the 1940s.
The Adding Machine | |
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Directed by | Jerome Epstein |
Produced by | Jerome Epstein |
Written by | Jerome Epstein Elmer Rice (play) |
Starring | Milo O'Shea Phyllis Diller Billie Whitelaw Sydney Chaplin Raymond Huntley |
Music by | Mike Leander Lambert Williamson |
Cinematography | Walter Lassally Ronnie Fox Rogers |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling |
Distributed by | Regional Film Distributors |
Release date | 23 September 1969 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Budget | $500,000[1] |
Premise
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a comptometer (a primitive adding machine) starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.[2]
Cast
- Milo O'Shea as Mr. Zero
- Phyllis Diller as Mrs. Zero
- Billie Whitelaw as Daisy Devore
- Sydney Chaplin as Lieutenant Charles
- Julian Glover as Shrdlu
- Raymond Huntley as Smithers
- Phil Brown as Don
- Paddie O'Neil as Mabel
- Libby Morris as Ethel
- Hugh McDermott as Harry
- Bill Nagy as Lawyer
- Carol Cleveland as Judy
- Bruce Boa as Detective
Reception
The film (and the play) received a critical 1969 review from Roger Greenspun.[3]
gollark: You should use a Haskell program to generate bash code to generate Amulet code.
gollark: Weird thing I noticed today: my desktop, which was plugged in and had the PSU on, but was off according to the front panel power light, was showing Ethernet connectivity and network activity on my cheap switch. Even though the status lights on the actual network port (on the computer, not switch) were off.
gollark: I kind of want to make a random password constraint generator.
gollark: *your password must be between 8 and 4003 characters in length, the length must be a prime number not ending in 7, and it must contain one or nine Egyptian hieroglyphs, at least one valid SQL command, the tears of a unicorn, and a proof or disproof of P = NP*
gollark: What about ~~foolish~~ places which limit password length to 0.5KB?
See also
References
- Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974 p346
- The Adding Machine on IMDb
- Greenspun, Roger (24 September 1969). "The Adding Machine (1969)". The New York Times.
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