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First ever use of the F word on screen, this British 67 flick is so telling of the times. Oliver Reed, sick of success, wants to go back to a simpler life.
SEE the entire Oliver Reed film here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Q4DkHD5Hw
A Michael Winner directe film.
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60%
Quint's camera ad makes this worth the watch. Plus Orson Welles eating barely flakes!
100%
Wow! Another amazing, waaay ahead of its time film. And another piece of filmmaking with editing that, in some ways, surpasses today's mise-en-scen...
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NOTES:
1 Along with a similar scene in Charlie Bubbles (1967), this helped to bring about the end of the Production Code in the USA and its replacement with a ratings system.
2 In the United States, the film was denied a MPAA seal of approval due to a scene between Oliver Reed and Carol White which implied (but did not actually show) oral sex (Director Winner, in his audio commentary, said he considered the scene to show masturbation.
3 The film is often named as the first mainstream film to use the word "fuck" in its dialogue. Another contender is Ulysses, which was released earlier the same year.
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Jonathan Lute - Orson Welles
Andrew Quint - Oliver Reed
Georgina Elben - Carol White
Gerald Sater - Harry Andrews
Headmaster - Michael Hordern
Louise Quint - Wendy Craig
Nicholas - Norman Rodway
Josie - Marianne Faithfull (then a pop-rock singer)
Chaplain - Frank Finlay
Carla - Ann Lynn
Charles Maccabee - Harvey Hall
Susannah - Lyn Ashley
Walter - Edward Fox (Fox famous for Dirty Dozen, Day of the Jackel)
Michael Cornwall - Mark Burns
Kelloway - Mark Eden
Young Andrew Quint - Hugo Keith-Johnston (uncredited)
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Directed by
Michael Winner
Produced by
Michael Winner
Written by
Peter Draper
Music by
Francis Lai
Cinematography
Otto Heller
Editing by
Bernard Gribble
Distributed by
J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors (theatre)
Anchor Bay Entertainment (DVD)
Release dates
18 December 1967
Running time
97 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/19/23
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Quite simply unmissable. Your life is not complete until you have seen the two greatest film actors of all time (Reed and Welles) face off against each other.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/21/23
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Quint's camera ad makes this worth the watch. Plus Orson Welles eating barely flakes!
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/27/23
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Everyone always associates Michael Winner with making bad films. However, here is one exception to the rule. A dark satire on the alienation of modern life and the manipulation of advertising, it also has a very good cast as well, all giving good performances. It has advertising executive Andrew Quint (Oliver Reed) resigning from his job for advertising mogul Jonathan Lute (Orson Welles), Quint is bored with being a success, he wants to go in the opposite direction, back to the simple life, he also leaves his wife and child, and he leaves his three mistresses as well. So, he returns to a small magazine he used to work for before he became a success. He falls for the magazine's writer Georgina Elben (Carol White) and they begin a small romance, but nothing is simple, and Quint finds that he cannot escape his successful life so easily, especially when Jonathan Lute buys out the magazine. It is a little seen film, and it may be one of the few good films Winner has made, and it is an indictment of the manipulation of big business and how simpler lives than those with successful, busy lives can be even more difficult. It does have a very dark edge, although there is a black sense of humour in it's veins. Oh, and it allegedly the first film to have the 'f' word in it, uttered by Marianne Faithfull.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/05/23
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Oliver Reed et Orson Welles. C'est deja pas mal. Le film en lui-meme est un peu date par moments et les themes plutot actuels abordes sont legerement forces. Il en reste une comedie dramatique avec un sacre pesant de cynisme. Pas indispensable, mais pas a jeter non plus.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/04/23
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Wow! Another amazing, waaay ahead of its time film. And another piece of filmmaking with editing that, in some ways, surpasses today's mise-en-scene, Tarantino-esque, jump-cutting style.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/23/23
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