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Captain Busby: The Even Tenour of Her Ways (1967)
Quentin Crisp's acting debut in Captain Busby (1967) | BFI National Archive
The first half of Ann Wolff's BFI-funded short sees the eponymous captain (played by O'Connor) enacting the bizarre actions of the verse, chewing his beard, bouncing through a window and "frowning at a passing ceiling". In the second half, a curious interplay involving a carrot unfolds at a railway station.
6 cast members
Eileen Colgan
Philip O’Connor
Quentin Crisp
Martina Mayne
Peter Hurst-Smith
Martin Canter