The Adding Machine (film)
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Director Jerome Epstein Duration | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Comedy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 23 September 1969 Writer Elmer Rice (play), Jerome Epstein (written for the screen by) Music director Mike Leander, Lambert Williamson Screenplay Charlie Chaplin, Jerome Epstein Cast Milo O'Shea (Mr. Zero), Phyllis Diller (Mrs. Zero), Billie Whitelaw (Daisy Devore), Sydney Chaplin (Lieutenant Charles), Julian Glover (Shrdlu), Raymond Huntley (Smithers)Similar movies Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End , Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey , The Sixth Sense , Beetlejuice , Defending Your Life , Recently, my sister is unusual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An obsolete bookkeeper (Phyllis Diller) kills his boss, is executed and enters the afterlife pending reincarnation.
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The Adding Machine is a 1969 American-British fantasy drama film produced, written, and directed by Jerome Epstein. It is based on a stage production of the 1923 Elmer Rice play directed by Jerome Epstein in Los Angeles in the 1940s.
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Plot summary
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a comptometer (a primitive adding machine) starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Cast
Similar Movies
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985). A Woman of Paris (1923). A Night in the Show (1915). A King in New York (1957). The Pilgrim (1923).
Reception
The movie (and the play) received a rather critical 1969 review from Roger Greenspun.
References
The Adding Machine (film) WikipediaThe Adding Machine (film) IMDb The Adding Machine (film) themoviedb.org