How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Bruce Robinson
Casts & Crew
Richard E. Grant
Rachel Ward
Richard Wilson
Jacqueline Tong
John Shrapnel
Susan Wooldridge
Hugh Armstrong
Mick Ford
Jacqueline Pearce
Christopher Simon
Gino Melvazzi
Tony Slattery
Rachel Fielding
Pip Torrens
Jon Levitt
Donald Hoath
Pauline Melville
Sean Bean
Francesca Longrigg
Tanveer Ghani
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Joanna Mays
Bruce Robinson
Eric Idle
Gordon Gostelow
Also Directed by Bruce Robinson
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