Wilt (film)

Wilt
DVD cover
Directed byMichael Tuchner
Written byAndrew Marshall
David Renwick
Tom Sharpe (novel)
Produced byBrian Eastman
StarringGriff Rhys Jones
Mel Smith
Alison Steadman
Diana Quick
CinematographyNorman G. Langley
Edited byChris Blunden
Music byAnne Dudley
Production
companies
Distributed byRank Film Distributors
Release dates
  • 3 November 1989 (1989-11-03) (UK)
[1]
  • 12 June 1990 (1990-06-12)
Running time
92 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$74,483 [2][3]
£2,790,603 (UK)[4]

Wilt, released in North America as The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt, is a 1989 film directed by Michael Tuchner and starring Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Alison Steadman, and Diana Quick. It is an adaptation by LWT of the 1976 novel Wilt by author Tom Sharpe. The story follows the comic misadventures of the eponymous Henry Wilt as he is accused of the murder of his wife when she suddenly goes missing after a party at a friend's house where they have a very public argument.

  1. ^ Brown, Geoff (28 October 1989). "The Week Ahead: Cinema". The Times. p. 48.
  2. ^ https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/the-wilt/production-details.html [permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Wilt". Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 31.