Shelley

★ 7.7IMDb Score
Released:1979-07-12
Genre:Comedy
Duration:25 min
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Actors:Josephine Tewson, Samantha Beckinsale, Garfield Morgan, Warren Clarke, Hywel Bennett
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Overview:

James Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran.

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