| The Cherry Picker | |
| Director: | Peter Curran |
| Producer: | Peter Curran |
| Based On: | the novel Pick Up Sticks by Mickey Phillips |
| Screenplay: | Peter Curran |
| Editing: | Jack Knight |
| Music: | Bill McGuffie |
| Starring: | Lulu Bob Sherman Terry-Thomas Wilfrid Hyde-White Spike Milligan |
| Studio: | Twickenham Film Studios |
| Runtime: | 91 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
The Cherry Picker (also known as The Quiet Life), is a 1972 British drama film directed by Peter Curran and starring Lulu, Bob Sherman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Spike Milligan, Patrick Cargill, Jack Hulbert, Fiona Curzon, Terry-Thomas and Robert Hutton.[1] [2] The screenplay was by Curran based on the 1968 novel Pick Up Sticks by Mickey Phillips.
As of August 2014, the film was missing from the BFI National Archive; although inferior quality copies are still in circulation, including YouTube,[3] it is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films[4] due to the loss of the original print.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The title sequence for The Cherry Picker features a Pirelli calendar, with exquisite semi-nudes in Degas-like attitudes. What follows unfortunately fails to come near the sybaritic elegance we associate with that august institution dedicated to the leisure pursuits of big businessmen. Presumably aiming at satire of similarly institutionalised Playboy attitudes towards sex and role-playing, the film dithers over an inadequately scripted and crudely shot narrative that might charitably be described as 'rambling' or 'picaresque'."[5]