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Director: Joseph McGrath.
1969 • U.K.
Ringo Starr, Peter Sellers, Isabel Jeans, Caroline Blakiston, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Attenborough, Leonard Frey, Laurence Harvey, Christopher Lee, Spike Milligan, Roman Polanski, Raquel Welch, Tom Boyle, Victor Maddern, Terence Alexander, Peter Bayliss, Joan Benham, Patrick Cargill, John Cleese, Clive Dunn, Fred Emney, Kenneth Fortescue, Patrick Holt, David Hutcheson, Hattie Jacques, Jeremy Lloyd, David Lodge, Ferdy Mayne, Dennis Price, Robert Raglan, Graham Stark, Miriam Karlin, Lewis Alexander, Andrew Andreas, Jack Armstrong, John Lennon (uncredited), Yoko Ono (uncredited).
"Presenting the most irreverent, irrelevant father and son team since the Frankensteins."
"Will the real "Magic Christian" please stand."
"Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of man? The Magic Christian do."
"Commits every sin in the book."
"I have it on the Best of Authorities that Ringo Starr is "The Magic Christian"!"
"Some Bird Told me That Peter Sellers is "The Magic Christian"!"
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"The Magic Christian is: antiestablishmentarian, antibellum, antitrust, antiseptic, antibiotic, antisocial & antipasto."
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"The world's richest man and the world's poorest boy are getting it ready now...and everybody, everywhere, will be a little worse off for it."
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"Nineteen hundred and seventy years ago, a Magic Christian definitely walked among us. This is definitely not the same story."
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Soundtrack:
The Magic Christian is a 1969 British satirical black comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with appearances by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski. It was loosely adapted from the 1959 comic novel The Magic Christian by the American author Terry Southern, who co-wrote the screenplay adaptation with McGrath. The film also features pre-Monty Python appearances of John Cleese (credited) and an uncredited Graham Chapman, who had jointly written an earlier version of the film script.
ReplyDeleteSongs by Badfinger, including "Come and Get It" written by Paul McCartney, were used on the soundtrack. The official soundtrack album had other music as well as dialogue from the film. Badfinger released an album, Magic Christian Music, containing their songs for the film.
The film received mostly negative reviews on release, citing its unrelenting and heavy-handed satire of capitalism, greed and human vanities.
Terry Southern's novel, "The Magic Christian" is very different from the film. However the film, which was written by Southern, among other, still maintains the spirit of the novel.
ReplyDeleteThe film is simply a series of vigniettes centering around Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers), and his adopted son, Youngman (Ringo Starr), who goes about "making things hot for people," by using his vast wealth to perpetrate elaborate practical jokes largely aimed at seeing how many of their principles people will give up for money.
The movie is very silly, fragmented, and horribly dated. > Now that you have heard the case against, I have to say that this is one of my favorite movies of all time.
The movie destroys or humiliates all social icons, from the police, to "the old school," to the snobbish upper class, to the art world. Its great to see, and once you make up your mind that the movie is just a series of sketches, its funny, and immensely satisfying, albeit somewhat vicious.
Look for cameos by Yul Brynner (in drag), Spike Milligan (Sellers' partner in "The Goon Show"), John Lennon and Yoko Ono, among many others.
Other notes: The novel, "The Magic Christian" was banned for a time, because it was viewed as obscene. Peter Sellers loved this book, and after he read it, he sent copies of it to all of his friends. It might say something about his tragic and depressed personality, that he found this book, with its many vicious stabs against society, so appealing.