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Film Details - 20th Century Fox , 1981
Producers:
John Goldstone.
Production Companies:
Twentieth Century Fox.
Director of Photography:
Mike Molloy.
Editors:
Richard Bedford.
Production Designers:
Brian Thomson.
Music:
Richard Hartley and Richard O'Brien.
Cast:
Jessica Harper (Janet Majors), Cliff De Young (Brad Majors/Farley Flavors), Richard O'Brien (Dr Cosmo McKinley), Patricia Quinn (Dr Nation McKinley), Charles Gray (Judge Oliver Wright), Ruby Wax (Betty Hapschatt), Nell Campbell (Nurse Ansalong), Rik Mayall ('Rest Home' Ricky), Barry Humphries (Bert Schnick), Darlene Johnson (Emily Weiss), Manning Redwood (Harry Weiss), Wendy Raebeck (Macy Struthers), Jeremy Newson (Ralph Hapschatt), Perry Bedden (Neely's Camera Crew), and Betsy Brantley (Neely Pritt).
Release Dates:
24 December 1981 (Australia).
Location:
- Filmed at Lee International Studios, Wembley, London. The planned location shooting was abandoned after a strike made it impossible, and the film was re-written so that it could be shot entirely in the studio.
