An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
Acting
McEnery's maddening stillness, Scofield's unraveling restraint.
Direction
Friedmann traps you in claustrophobic office hell.
Director
Anthony Friedmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paul Scofield reportedly found McEnery's commitment to stillness so unnerving he broke character multiple times.
This forgotten 1970 adaptation predates Office Space by decades and arguably captures Melville's dead-end capitalism dread better than the 2001 version with Crispin Glover.
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