The Adding Machine (1969)
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
- Starring:
- Phyllis Diller, Milo O'Shea, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jerome Epstein
Synopsis of The Adding Machine
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
Complete Cast of The Adding Machine
- Phyllis Diller - Mrs. Zero
- Billie Whitelaw - Daisy Devore
- Julian Glover - Shrdlu
- Phil Brown - Don
- Hugh McDermott - Harry
- Carol Cleveland - Judy
- Kenny Damon - Joe
- Helen Elliott - Second Apartment Girl
- John Bloomfield - Apartmant Tenant
- Alan Surtees - Apartmant Tenant
- Cal McCord - Apartmant Tenant
- Anthony Harwood - Apartment Tenants
- Nick Stuart - District Attorney
- Mike Reed - Exercise Yard Guard
- George Margo - Gateman In Arcade
- Janie Baron - Thin Woman
- Jean-Pierre Bernard - Christian
- Joelle Bernard - Janine
- John Brandon - First cell jailer
- Hal Galili - Second cell jailer
- Milo O'Shea - Zero
- Sydney Chaplin - Lt. Charles
- Raymond Huntley - Smithers
- Libby Morris - Ethel
- Paddie O'Neil - Mabel
- Bruce Boa - Detective
- Bill Hutchinson - Judy's Lover
- C. Denier Warren - Jury foreman
- Helena Stevens - Apartmant Tenant
- Christine Pryor - Apartmant Tenant
- Shirley Cooklin - Apartmant Tenant
- Bill Nagy - Lawyer
- Gordon Sterne - Exercise Yard Guard
- Lola Lloyd - Coffee Girl
- Janet Brown - Fat Woman
- John Cook - Husband
- Tony Caunter - Third cell jailer
- George Roderick - Hot Dog Vendor
- Tom Duggan - Judee
- Director(s):
- Jerome Epstein
- Writer(s):
- Elmer Rice, Jerome Epstein
- Producer(s):
- Jerome Epstein
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