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.

Cast

Richard E. Grant

as Denis Dimbleby Bagley

Rachel Ward

as Julia Bagley

Richard Wilson

as John Bristol

Jacqueline Tong

as Penny Wheelstock

Susan Wooldridge

as Monica

John Shrapnel

as Psychiatrist

Hugh Armstrong

as Harry Wax

Mick Ford

as Richard

Jacqueline Pearce

as Maud

Christopher Simon

as Waiter

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