How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his ... See full summary »
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This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #120.
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Denis Dimbleby Bagley:
Let me try and clarify some of this for you. Best Company Supermarkets are not interested in selling wholesome foods. They are not worried about the nation's health. What is concerning them, is that the nation appears to be getting worried about its...
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After Bagley has lunch with his wife, she drops him back at the advertising firm's office building, but it is a different building to the one used for the interior scenes, which is the tall red building several hundred yards up the street (visible in the crane shot of their car pulling up), right next to the Lambeth bridge, as we can see from the window view in the scenes in Bagley's and Bristol's offices.
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Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity from the Planets Op. 32Composed by Gustav Holst
Conducted by Allan Wilson
Published by J. Curwen & Sons Ltd.
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Genres
Comedy | FantasyDetails
Release Date:
29 March 1990Language
English
Country of Origin
UKFilming Locations
Hampton House - 20 Albert Embankment, Lambeth, London, England, UKBox Office
Gross:
$418,053 (USA)
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