A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado

Jan 20, 1981

1h 10m

★ 0.0

Overview

A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation and sink their savings into a restaurant. All is disaster until the appearance of the Porters, whose enthusiastic patronage soon has trade booming.

Genres

Comedy

TV Movie

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Cast

Mr Porter

Christopher Benjamin

Mrs Porter

Gillian Martell

Tom

Paul Copley

Gwen

Natasha Pyne

Harry

Mark Penfold

Fulton

Nigel Hawthorne

Mrs Bone

Gwen Nelson

Des McNeil

Kevin Lloyd

Sales representative

Harold Goodwin

Mr Smith

Leonard Fenton

Mrs Smith

Shirley Stelfox

Coach driver

Ewart James Walters

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