Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.

• Alan PlaterScreenplay
• Robert BiermanDirector
• Mike BattOriginal Music Composer

• Helena Bonham CarterRosemary
• Richard E. GrantGordon Comstock
• Julian WadhamRavelston
• Jim CarterErskine
• Harriet WalterJulia Comstock
• Lesley VickerageHermione
• Barbara Leigh-HuntMrs. Wisbeach
• Liz SmithMrs Meakin
• John CleggMcKechnie
• Malcolm SinclairPaul Doring
• Ben MilesRavenscroft Waiter
• Dorothy AtkinsonDora