The Adding Machine (film)

The Adding Machine
The Adding Machine
Directed by	Jerome Epstein
Written by	Jerome Epstein
Based on	The Adding Machine; by Elmer Rice
Produced by	Jerome Epstein
Starring	Milo O'Shea; Phyllis Diller; Billie Whitelaw; Sydney Chaplin; Raymond Huntley
Cinematography	Walter Lassally;
Edited by	Gerry Hambling
Music by	Mike Leander;
Distributed by	Regional Film Distributors
Release date	23 September 1969
Running time	100 minutes
Budget	$500,000

The Adding Machine is a 1969 American-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 is based on a stage production of the 1923 Elmer Rice play The Adding Machine directed by Jerome Epstein in Los Angeles in the 1940s.

Plot[]

An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a comptometer (a primitive adding machine) starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.

The film (and the play) received a critical 1969 review from Roger Greenspun.^[2]

^ Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974 p346
^ Greenspun, Roger (24 September 1969). "The Adding Machine (1969)". The New York Times.