Peter O'Toole plays a man too charming for his own good—and too old for this chaos.
An aging and self-obsessed actor finds himself in a situation bordering on farce when he is besieged by the demands of his estranged wife, women who want to seduce him, and a crazed playwright.
Acting
O'Toole's theatrical swagger is pure magnetic chaos.
Writing
Noël Coward's razor-sharp dialogue never wastes a syllable.
Director
Gordon Flemyng
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This TV adaptation was shot in just ten days on a shoestring BBC budget, yet O'Toole reportedly treated every take like opening night at the Old Vic.
Coward wrote Garry as a thinly veiled self-portrait during his own midlife romantic entanglements, making O'Toole's casting—a notorious hellraiser himself—almost too perfect.
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