A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado

January. 20,1981      
Rating:
8.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Christopher Benjamin as  Mr Porter
Paul Copley as  Tom
Natasha Pyne as  Gwen
Nigel Hawthorne as  Fulton
Kevin Lloyd as  Des McNeil
Harold Goodwin as  Sales representative
Leonard Fenton as  Mr Smith
Shirley Stelfox as  Mrs Smith

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