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.

CAST

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

Mark ChapmanCourt Room Journalist (uncredited)

Lucy SpeedFactory Worker