Petulia is Richard Lester's ode to the Swinging Sixties: a time of psychedelic instability when neither those who were square, nor those who were hip, really had it right. George C. Scott is Archie ...

Richard Lester’s “Petulia” is about pain, and about two ironic life-styles devised by the two central characters to survive an age in which they are aware of so much injury around them that the only ...

Philadelphia-born Richard Lester, who became British cinema’s one-man new wave with A Hard Day’s Night and The Knack, chose San Francisco as the location for Petulia, his first film in the U.S. “It’s ...