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The Cherry Picker

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The Cherry Picker
Opening titles
Directed byPeter Curran
Screenplay byPeter Curran
Based onthe novel Pick Up Sticks by Mickey Phillips
Produced byPeter Curran
StarringLulu
Bob Sherman
Terry-Thomas
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Spike Milligan
Edited byJack Knight
Music byBill McGuffie
Production
company
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Cherry Picker (also known as The Quiet Life), is a 1972 British drama film directed by Peter Curran and starring Lulu, Bob Sherman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Spike Milligan, Patrick Cargill, Jack Hulbert, Fiona Curzon, Terry-Thomas and Robert Hutton.[1][2] The screenplay was by Curran based on the 1968 novel Pick Up Sticks by Mickey Phillips.

As of August 2014, the film was missing from the BFI National Archive; although inferior quality copies are still in circulation, including YouTube,[3] it is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films[4] due to the loss of the original print.

Cast

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Critical reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The title sequence for The Cherry Picker features a Pirelli calendar, with exquisite semi-nudes in Degas-like attitudes. What follows unfortunately fails to come near the sybaritic elegance we associate with that august institution dedicated to the leisure pursuits of big businessmen. Presumably aiming at satire of similarly institutionalised Playboy attitudes towards sex and role-playing, the film dithers over an inadequately scripted and crudely shot narrative that might charitably be described as 'rambling' or 'picaresque'."[5]

References

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  1. ^ "The Cherry Picker". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  2. ^ "The Cherry Picker (1972)". Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  3. ^ "7 Amazing British Films That Are Lost Forever". Yahoo Finance. 22 January 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  4. ^ "BFI Most Wanted". BFI National Archives. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  5. ^ "The Cherry Picker". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 41 (480): 44. 1 January 1974 – via ProQuest.
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