Charlie Bubbles

Charlie Bubbles
Film Poster
Directed byAlbert Finney
Written byShelagh Delaney
Produced byMichael Medwin
StarringAlbert Finney
Billie Whitelaw
Liza Minnelli
Colin Blakely
CinematographyPeter Suschitzky
Edited byFergus McDonell
Music byMisha Donat
Production
companies
Universal Pictures
Memorial Enterprises
Distributed byRank Film Distributors
Release dates
  • 11 February 1968 (1968-02-11) (US)
  • 19 September 1968 (1968-09-19) (UK)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1 million[1] or £318,483[2][3]

Charlie Bubbles is a 1968 British comedy-drama film directed by Albert Finney (in his feature directorial debut) and starring Finney, Billie Whitelaw and Liza Minnelli.[4] The screenplay was by Shelagh Delaney.

A writer returns to his home city after achieving success in London.

  1. ^ Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974, p. 345
  2. ^ Chapman, L. (2021). "They wanted a bigger, more ambitious film": Film Finances and the American "Runaways" That Ran Away. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 18(2), 176–197 p 189. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0565
  3. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 361
  4. ^ "Charlie Bubbles". British Film Institute. Retrieved 13 May 2024.