[go: up one dir, main page]

    Calendario de lanzamientosTop 250 películasPelículas más popularesBuscar películas por géneroTaquilla superiorHorarios y entradasNoticias sobre películasPelículas de la India destacadas
    Programas de televisión y streamingLas 250 mejores seriesSeries más popularesBuscar series por géneroNoticias de TV
    Qué verÚltimos trailersTítulos originales de IMDbSelecciones de IMDbDestacado de IMDbGuía de entretenimiento familiarPodcasts de IMDb
    OscarsEmmysSan Diego Comic-ConSummer Watch GuideToronto Int'l Film FestivalIMDb Stars to WatchPremios STARmeterInformación sobre premiosInformación sobre festivalesTodos los eventos
    Nacidos un día como hoyCelebridades más popularesNoticias sobre celebridades
    Centro de ayudaZona de colaboradoresEncuestas
Para profesionales de la industria
  • Idioma
  • Totalmente compatible
  • English (United States)
    Parcialmente compatible
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Lista de visualización
Iniciar sesión
  • Totalmente compatible
  • English (United States)
    Parcialmente compatible
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Usar app
  • Elenco y equipo
  • Opiniones de usuarios
  • Trivia
  • Preguntas Frecuentes
IMDbPro

The Optimists of Nine Elms

  • 1973
  • PG
  • 1h 50min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.6/10
601
TU CALIFICACIÓN
The Optimists of Nine Elms (1973)
Drama

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young children befriend the old musician, brightening his otherwise colorless life.A retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young children befriend the old musician, brightening his otherwise colorless life.A retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young children befriend the old musician, brightening his otherwise colorless life.

  • Dirección
    • Anthony Simmons
  • Guionistas
    • Anthony Simmons
    • Tudor Gates
  • Elenco
    • Peter Sellers
    • Donna Mullane
    • John Chaffey
  • Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro
  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.6/10
    601
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Anthony Simmons
    • Guionistas
      • Anthony Simmons
      • Tudor Gates
    • Elenco
      • Peter Sellers
      • Donna Mullane
      • John Chaffey
    • 16Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 9Opiniones de los críticos
  • Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro
  • Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro
  • Fotos19

    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    + 14
    Ver el cartel

    Elenco principal21

    Editar
    Peter Sellers
    Peter Sellers
    • Sam
    Donna Mullane
    • Liz
    John Chaffey
    • Mark
    David Daker
    David Daker
    • Bob Ellis
    Marjorie Yates
    • Chrissie Ellis
    Katyana Kass
    • Baby Ellis
    Patricia Brake
    Patricia Brake
    • Dog's Home Secretary
    Don Crown
    • Busker
    Bruce Purchase
    Bruce Purchase
    • Policeman
    Michael Graham Cox
    Michael Graham Cox
    • Park Keeper
    Bernie Searle
    • Dustman
    Tommy Wright
    • Dustman
    Pat Beckett
    • Laundry Lady
    Daphne Lawson
    • Laundry Lady
    Candyce Jane Brandl
    • Laundry Lady
    Hilary Crane
    Hilary Crane
    • Schoolteacher
    Pat Ashton
    Pat Ashton
    • Woman at Nursery
    Keith Chegwin
    Keith Chegwin
    • Georgie
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Anthony Simmons
    • Guionistas
      • Anthony Simmons
      • Tudor Gates
    • Todo el elenco y el equipo
    • Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro

    Opiniones de usuarios16

    6.6601
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    Opiniones destacadas

    9simonton-4

    Charming film; butchered sound on the DVD

    The old VHS tape had dismal picture quality, but the sound was quite good enough to understand the dialog. The DVD is the reverse: the picture quality is relatively excellent, but the dialog is nearly unintelligible. The idiot who re-recorded the sound for the DVD must be the same one that destroyed the sound for The Importance of Being Earnest and Waltz of the Toreadors. I wish I could synchronize the DVD with the VHS to get the best of each.

    This is such a wonderful film, a favorite. How sad that friends and family can't share my enthusiasm because of the struggle to understand what's being said. Nevertheless, I recommend it and insist it's worth the trouble. The film transports me to the time and place, and gives my emotions some healthy exercise. Try taking the journey from sadness and frustration to hopefulness and joy, with a fascinating view of the London of 40 years ago and a sensitive portrayal by Peter Sellers, one of his best.
    7sotheran57

    good all round film

    I have seen this film a couple of times over the years and even though it is a little maudlin (most films with dogs and kids are) and, possibly, naive, it is very entertaining. Sellers does what I consider to be one of his best performances - up there with his rogue friend Terry Thomas in Tom Thumb. But being a Keaton fan it would have been wonderful to see him in the role with all his years of vaudeville and film experience. Can you believe young kids wandering the streets and befriending an old man? I wonder if PC would allow this kind of thing to be produced today... It has no pretensions, just good story telling. Well worth a watch without deep analysis.
    7slokes

    Bittersweet Tale Of Busker And His Dog

    I'm a sucker for Peter Sellers as well as movies that center around dogs, so I'm easy to please here. That said, in both title and by being classified as a comedy, "The Optimists" is a bit off. Yes, it stars Sellers and a couple of likeably scruffy kids, but the story is one of only light humor and much sadness amid a downscale London district bordering the Thames called Nine Elms.

    Nine Elms, as a lonely young girl named Liz (Donna Mullane) explains in the beginning, "didn't mean trees, it meant foggy winter, the noise of trains. But most of all, it meant Sam, the first to show us the world on the other side of the river."

    Sam, played by Sellers, is a street performer, or "busker," who like his faithful dog Bella is getting on in years but still plugging away singing for loose change at soccer games. Liz and her little brother Mark (John Chaffey) initially tease Sam, but come to befriend him and Bella. Sam in turn indeed takes them across the river to help him in his street act, teach them some songs, and talk about life, death and the wonderland that's one's own imagination.

    "It's magic, it's private, it's yours," he says of the last thing.

    "It's not!" Liz counters.

    "I told you that's a rude word," Sam tells her. "Use a handkerchief."

    Sellers supposedly channeled memories of his father, a music-hall performer, in the character of Sam. He's charming company, tipping his battered hat and introducing songs like "No Matter How Long Your Stockings Are, The Tops Are Always Nearest To The Bottom." His interaction with Mullane and Chaffey is quite winning in a natural, unaffected way, chippy at first ("Don't annoy the dog, son, she'll pee all over you!"), then gradually warming into believable affection.

    A problem with "Optimists" is the absence of any real story. Liz's concern with the world across the river stems from the fact there are nicer apartments there for her family to live in if they can get accepted by the right building council. Mark just wants a dog of his own. Later in the story, there is a crisis involving the getting and keeping of this second dog, as well as how the relationship between Sam and the kids is interpreted by their gruff-but-decent father. None of this adds up to riveting cinema, and "Optimists" sort of runs on like the river that forms its most memorable backdrop.

    Amble as it does, "Optimists" has an engaging quality to it. Director Anthony Simmons, both the writer of the source novel and co-writer (with Tudor Gates) of the script, finds the right balance of image and pace. The musical score by George Martin, with songs by Lionel Bart, accentuates both Sam's music-hall heritage and his budding friendship with Liz and Mark. The cinematography by Larry Pizer is stark but beautiful, much of it centering around the environs of Battersea Power Station which will be quite familiar to Pink Floyd fans.

    There are no stirring setpieces in "Optimists," but a lot of nice little moments that stand out when you see them, like another busker with trained budgies or an old woman glimpsed staring out the window at the children playing outside.

    Twee and manipulative as it sometimes is, "Optimists" scores with a solid Sellers performance in the middle of his dry early-1970s period as well as a quality of battered hopefulness that sticks with you. If it had been more sharply written, it could have been a classic, but as it is it stands up as a character study and leaves a warm impression.
    Mickey77

    A Gem

    This is such a sweet little movie - containing (next to Being There) Peter Sellers finest screen performance. The two kids are also outstanding and anyone who wants to see London locations other than Tower Bridge and Piccadilly Circus should check this out. A seemingly forgotten film, but well worth seeking out.
    9curtin_optom

    sensitive, sad but very true to life

    This is a very sad and sensitive film, beautifully filmed in a very poor area of London just behind Battersea Power Station. If you enjoy Merchant Ivory films, the 'Kidnappers', or 'Whistle Down the Wind' then you will appreciate the delicate undertones of this story.

    It is very true to life in the late 60's in London and shows the resilience of the children and the sadness of a once great Music Hall star.

    Más como esto

    La caja equivocada
    6.7
    La caja equivocada
    Dos chicas y un seductor
    6.6
    Dos chicas y un seductor
    La venganza de la pantera rosa
    6.6
    La venganza de la pantera rosa
    El magnífico Bobo
    5.5
    El magnífico Bobo
    The Blockhouse
    5.8
    The Blockhouse
    La persecución del zorro
    6.4
    La persecución del zorro
    Hoffman
    6.8
    Hoffman
    Diamantes para el desayuno
    6.8
    Diamantes para el desayuno
    The Prisoner of Zenda
    5.2
    The Prisoner of Zenda
    I'm All Right Jack
    7.1
    I'm All Right Jack
    The Great McGonagall
    4.8
    The Great McGonagall
    El regreso de la pantera rosa
    7.0
    El regreso de la pantera rosa

    Argumento

    Editar

    ¿Sabías que…?

    Editar
    • Trivia
      Buster Keaton was originally considered for the lead, but the backers of the film refused to support the project with him as the star. John Mills was then cast but suffered a broken leg and the project was postponed until many years later in 1973.
    • Errores
      Sam visits the inside of Chelsea Football Club, but the outside of Fulham Football Club (note the graffiti and the park, which is next to FFC).
    • Citas

      Sam: Inside your head you can build...

      Mark: A skyscraper

      Sam: Aye... a palace. A what?

      Mark: An apple.

      Sam: An orange.

      Mark: A steamboat.

      Sam: The lot. If you think with your eyeballs and forget all that rot from teachers and fathers and mothers and cops. That is *private*. It's *yours*.

    • Conexiones
      Referenced in Gravity Artist: Vic Armstrong Remembers 'Green Ice' (2024)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Mr. Bass Drum Man
      Written by Alan Bernard and Don Crown

      Performed by Don Crown (uncredited)

    Selecciones populares

    Inicia sesión para calificar y agrega a la lista de videos para obtener recomendaciones personalizadas
    Iniciar sesión

    Preguntas Frecuentes14

    • How long is The Optimists?Con tecnología de Alexa

    Detalles

    Editar
    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 18 de octubre de 1973 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Reino Unido
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • The Optimists
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Marble Arch, Mayfair, Westminster, Greater London, Inglaterra, Reino Unido
    • Productoras
      • Cheetah
      • Sagittarius Productions
      • West One Film Productions
    • Ver más créditos de la compañía en IMDbPro

    Especificaciones técnicas

    Editar
    • Tiempo de ejecución
      • 1h 50min(110 min)
    • Mezcla de sonido
      • Mono
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.85 : 1

    Contribuir a esta página

    Sugiere una edición o agrega el contenido que falta
    • Obtén más información acerca de cómo contribuir
    Editar página

    Más para explorar

    Visto recientemente

    Habilita las cookies del navegador para usar esta función. Más información.
    Obtener la aplicación de IMDb
    Inicia sesión para obtener más accesoInicia sesión para obtener más acceso
    Sigue a IMDb en las redes sociales
    Obtener la aplicación de IMDb
    Para Android e iOS
    Obtener la aplicación de IMDb
    • Ayuda
    • Índice del sitio
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • Licencia de datos de IMDb
    • Sala de prensa
    • Publicidad
    • Trabaja con nosotros
    • Condiciones de uso
    • Política de privacidad
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, una compañía de Amazon

    © 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.