"I Say, This is Tremendous Fun!!"
Shown this and Helen Shapiro's only other movie 'It's Trad Dad' side by side you'd be hard pressed to say which director was to prove the one to watch - and it's hard to remember now that fifty years ago Michael Winner seemed promising.
But that WAS a very long time ago, when beatniks rather than hippies were parodied (Marianne Stone had recently played a similar role for Stanley Kubrick in 'Lolita') and 7/6d seemed like an extortionate sum to be billed in a nightclub.
Winner seems to have been working with a bigger budget but an even triter script than Lester, and the heroine (Anna Palk) is that old cliche from thirty years earlier: a runaway heiress! Winner nevertheless breezes with gusto through all this nonsense and it's all pleasantly enjoyable to sit through.
"Well that's it everybody! Keep twisting!!"
But that WAS a very long time ago, when beatniks rather than hippies were parodied (Marianne Stone had recently played a similar role for Stanley Kubrick in 'Lolita') and 7/6d seemed like an extortionate sum to be billed in a nightclub.
Winner seems to have been working with a bigger budget but an even triter script than Lester, and the heroine (Anna Palk) is that old cliche from thirty years earlier: a runaway heiress! Winner nevertheless breezes with gusto through all this nonsense and it's all pleasantly enjoyable to sit through.
"Well that's it everybody! Keep twisting!!"
- richardchatten
- 23 सित॰ 2019