The Adding Machine (film)

The Adding Machine
Opening titles
Directed byJerome Epstein
Written byJerome Epstein
Based onThe Adding Machine
by Elmer Rice
Produced byJerome Epstein
StarringMilo O'Shea
Phyllis Diller
Billie Whitelaw
Sydney Chaplin
Raymond Huntley
CinematographyWalter Lassally
Ronnie Fox Rogers
Edited byGerry Hambling
Music byMike Leander
Lambert Williamson
Production
company
Associated London Films
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • 23 September 1969 (1969-09-23)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$500,000

The Adding Machine is a 1969 British fantasy comedy drama film produced, written, and directed by Jerome Epstein and starring Milo O'Shea, Phyllis Diller, Billie Whitelaw, Sydney Chaplin, and Raymond Huntley.

It was based on a stage production of the 1923 Elmer Rice play The Adding Machine directed by Epstein in Los Angeles in the 1940s. It was distributed in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures.

The action of the film takes place on Earth, in 1930s Manhattan during the Great Depression, and in Heaven.