The Adding Machine (1969)
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This satirical fantasy is based upon an Elmer Rice play from 1923. A hard-working office employee is rewarded for his years of slavish devotion to the company by getting fired just prior to retirement and being replaced with an adding machine. Now, with only his nagging wife waiting at home to add… More This satirical fantasy is based upon an Elmer Rice play from 1923. A hard-working office employee is rewarded for his years of slavish devotion to the company by getting fired just prior to retirement and being replaced with an adding machine. Now, with only his nagging wife waiting at home to add more misery to his dreary life, the man has nothing left and goes over the edge. He murders his boss and then goes on trial. He is convicted and put to death. He dies a happy and free man, thinking that he will surely go to Hell. Strangely enough, he ends up in a heavenly waiting area with other killers who are all there to be reassigned to new lives back on Earth. While waiting, he meets his new guardian angel. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jerome Epstein
- Genres
- Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Sep 23, 1969 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Phil Hall, Film Threat
A killer example of how not to adapt a play into a movie.
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Cast
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Phyllis Diller
as Mrs. Zero
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Milo O'Shea
as Zero
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Billie Whitelaw
as Daisy Devore
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Sydney Chaplin
as Lt. Charles
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Julian Glover
as Shrdlu
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Raymond Huntley
as Smithers
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Phil Brown
as Don
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Libby Morris
as Ethel
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Hugh McDermott
as Harry
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Paddie O'Neil
as Mabel
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Carol Cleveland
as Judy
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Bruce Boa
as Detective
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Kenny Damon
as Joe
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Bill Hutchinson
as Judy's Lover
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Helen Elliott
as Second Apartment Girl
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C. Denier Warren
as Jury foreman
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John Bloomfield
as Apartmant Tenant
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Helena Stevens
as Apartmant Tenant
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Alan Surtees
as Apartmant Tenant
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Christine Pryor
as Apartmant Tenant
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Cal McCord
as Apartmant Tenant
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Shirley Cooklin
as Apartmant Tenant
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Anthony Harwood
as Apartment Tenants
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Bill Nagy
as Lawyer
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Nick Stuart
as District Attorney
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Gordon Sterne
as Exercise Yard Guard
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Mike Peter Reed
as Exercise Yard Guard
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Lola Lloyd
as Coffee Girl
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George Margo
as Gateman In Arcade
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Janet Brown
as Fat Woman
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Janie Baron
as Thin Woman
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John Cook
as Husband
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Jean-Pierre Bernard
as Christian
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John Brandon
as First cell jailer
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Tom Duggan
as Judee
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Hal Galili
as Second cell jailer
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George Roderick
as Hot Dog Vendor
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Joelle Bernard
as Janine
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Tony Caunter
as Third cell jailer
