A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
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A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation and sink their savings into a restaurant. All is disaster until the appearance of the Porters, whose enthusiastic patronage soon has trade booming.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1981-01-20
Runtime: 70 mins
Director: Baz Taylor
Writer: Don Haworth
Spoken language: English
Genres: Comedy, TV Movie
Original title: A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
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Cast
Christopher Benjamin
Gillian Martell
Paul Copley
Natasha Pyne
Mark Penfold
Nigel Hawthorne
Gwen Nelson
Kevin Lloyd
Harold Goodwin
Leonard Fenton
Shirley Stelfox
Ewart James Walters
Sean Burns
David Rome
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