FeatureR1989·92m·6.4

Wilt

Has the shocking truth about Henry Wilt been inflated?

ComedyCrime

Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an inflatable doll and makes a complete fool of himself. Eventually, he dumps the doll in a hole at a building site. However, he has been witnessed getting rid of the doll and when his wife disappears on the night after the party, the police and Inspector Flint have strong suspicions on Mr Wilt.

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Cast

Mel Smith

Inspector Flint

Griff Rhys Jones

Henry Wilt

Alison Steadman

Eva

Roger Lloyd Pack

Dr Pittman

Diana Quick

Sally

Jeremy Clyde

Hugh

Roger Allam

Dave

David Ryall

Rev. Froude

Dermot Crowley

Braintree

John Normington

Treadaway

Tony Mathews

Gladden

Charles Lawson

Cranham

Gabrielle Blunt

Mrs. Bulstrode

Edward Clayton

Mossop

Jeffrey Chiswick

Macari

Julia McCarthy

Mrs. McClaren

Geoffrey McGivern

Mr. Yeo

Ling Tai

Manageress

Christopher Saul

Vice Principal

Barbara Hicks

Ms Clinch

Details

Status
Released
Original language
English
Languages
English
Budget
Revenue
Age rating
R
Quality
4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production
TalkbackThe Rank OrganisationLWTPicture Partnership

Crew

Director

Michael Tuchner

Writers

Tom Sharpe, David Renwick, Andrew Marshall

Anne Dudley

Original Music Composer

Leo Austin

Production Design

Elizabeth Waller

Costume Design

Norman G. Langley

Director of Photography

Chris Blunden

Editor

Gallery

Reviews

kevin2019

11/15/2024

8.0

"Wilt" is a consistently amusing film throughout which perfectly uses the comedy of extreme embarrassment to good effect as Henry Wilt bungles his way from one improbable - yet never entirely implausible - catastrophe to the next. The many twists and turns it takes are completely unanticipated until the very end when it becomes perfectly clear Wilt's wife Eva is very much alive and she has inadvertently stumbled into the clutches of the strangler and, even though this character has been referenced elsewhere earlier on in the film, this doesn't spoil the fun in any way. The finale has lots of comedic energy running through it to sustain it until the very end and the film as a whole is satisfactorily concluded on every level.