Excellent swinging sixties drama with Oliver Reed as an ad man who hacks up his desk with an axe but boss Orson Welles is convinced he'll come back. With good reason - Reed is juggling a wife (Wendy Craig), a kid, a mistress (Marianne Faithful) and a lover... adding to that he starts work at a magazine and falls for the secretary (Carole White) who is a dream girl, albeit not manic and pixie, but who is lovely with a great smile.
This sort of movie is self indulgent - "I'm making so much money doing ads and I hate it" "all these women want to have sex with me" - but it's very well done. Peter Draper did a good script and Michael Winner was at his directing peak. Orson Welles' presence helps.
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