Soho Bites 50: Bartleby (1970)

I would prefer not to. Based on “ Bartleby the Scrivener - A Story of Wall Street ”, a short story by Herman Melville , Bartleby (1970) is the story of a young man at odds with the world in which he finds himself. He starts work as an audit clerk at an accountancy firm but within a few days begins to refuse to do any work, saying merely that he “would prefer not to”. Starring John McEnery in the…