Charlie Bubbles is the title of a British film of 1967 starring Billie Whitelaw and Albert Finney, and also featuring a very young Liza Minnelli, in her first film role. Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire) is a five-time Academy Award nominated English actor. ... Michael Medwin is anEnglish actor, born on 18 November 1923 in London. ... Delaney was featured twice on Smiths record sleeves. ... Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire) is a five-time Academy Award nominated English actor. ... Billie Whitelaw, CBE (b. ... Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. ... Colin Blakely (September 23, 1930 May 7, 1987) was a British character actor. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Billie Whitelaw, CBE (b. ... Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire) is a five-time Academy Award nominated English actor. ... Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. ...

The film made great play of its Manchester setting, contrasting the return of its eponymous lead character, played by Finney, to his home city after achieving success as a writer in London. During his return he visits his former wife, played by Whitelaw, in Derbyshire and watches a Manchester United match at Old Trafford, featuring genuine footage of Sir Bobby Charlton and Denis Law, with his son. They are symbolically cut off from the outside world in a glass-fronted box as they watch the match. Finney's character is undergoing a profound boredom with his success and his privileged position, which allows him to indulge himself in most ways he wishes. One of these is a relationship with his secretary Eliza, played by Minnelli (in one notable scene it is apparent, though not shown, that she fellates him). Manchester Uniteds emblem Manchester United F.C. (often abbreviated to Man United or just Man U, pronounced man-yoo) is an English football club based at Old Trafford in Greater Manchester. ... Old Trafford is an area of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. ... Sir Robert Bobby Charlton, CBE (born 11 October 1937) Ashington, Northumberland is a former English professional football player who won a World Cup medal and the European Footballer of the Year award in 1966. ... Denis Law (born February 24, 1940, in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a retired Scottish football player, who enjoyed a long and successful career as a striker from the 1950s to the 1970s. ...

Bubbles glides around in a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III convertible - CB 1E. The car is heavily featured throughout the film, directly contrasting against the working class life and the poverty of Post war working class life and in this case Salford. Reference to the colliery and the gas works further put forward the message that Bubbles has come a long way but that he still isn't that happy even though he now has the lifestyle that perhaps he once dreamed of. Liza Minnelli capturing the hatchet faced old man at a bus stop and the child on a bike whilst driving open top along the cobbled and crumbling streets is particularly poignant. Joe Gladwin plays a waiter serving breakfast in the Manchster hotel room. I used to know your father sir. We're all very proud of you. Are you still working sir or do you just do the writing now? Bubbles retorts No. Just the writing and hands him a bank note. The viewer can judge the meaning of what has just been said and how Bubbles can buy himself out of situations where he feels awkward or guilty. This and other scenarios throughout the film - the long journey North that seems to take an eternity - highlight the strong North-South divide - political and socio-economic - that existed so strongly at that time, and that in certain respects continues today.

The character Charlie Bubbles was almost type-casting for the successful and charismatic Finney in terms of background; he had risen to film-stardom from a background as a bookie's son in the neighbouring working class city of Salford. Statistics Population: 72,750 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SJ805985 Administration Borough: Salford Metropolitan county: Greater Manchester Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Greater Manchester Historic county: Lancashire Services Police force: Greater Manchester Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: North West Post...

Finney both starred in and directed the movie, the only occasion in his career that he has done this. Whitelaw won a New York Film Critics' Circle award in 1969 as Best Supporting Actress for her performance, and also a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award in the same category.

The film is a slightly surreal off-shoot of the kitchen sink drama in which Finney had achieved stardom in Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning of 1960. The film's writer Shelagh Delaney, had also achieved fame as the writer of another leading film in this genre - Tony Richardson's 1961 A Taste of Honey. Delaney also wrote Lindsay Anderson's 1967 The White Bus, which, like Charlie Bubble's, utilised in part a Manchester and/or Salford background and has a distinctly surreal feel to it at times. Kitchen sink drama was a recognisable British cultural movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ... Karel Reisz (born 1926, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, died London, United Kingdom, 2002) was a Jewish refugee who became one of the most important film-makers in post war Britain. ... Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a British novel by Alan Sillitoe (his second, in 1958), a film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, adapted from the novel by its author, and later, in 1964, a success as a stage play, adapted by David Brett for the Nottingham Playhouse... Delaney was featured twice on Smiths record sleeves. ... Tony Richardson (June 5, 1928 - November 14, 1991) was a British theatre and film director and producer. ... A Taste of Honey is a play by British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, first produced in 1958. ...