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Daring-for-its-day comedy-drama casts Richard Burton and Rex Harrison as aging, gay London hairdressers Harry Leeds and Charlie Dyer, whose decades-long union just might have reached its breaking point, between Charlie’s serial infidelities and Harry’s being left to have to deal with an infirmed mother (Cathleen Nesbitt). Beatrix Lehmann, Stephen Lewis co-star in director Stanley Donen’s adaptation of Dyer's 1966 play; score by Dudley Moore. 98 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.