簡介:這是Richard Lester最好的一個片。 An absurdist classic This is a wonderful surreal comedy based on the play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. You know that it is going to be an odd film right at the beginning, when the opening credits list the cast in order of their height. The film begins with the BBC (Frank Thornton) telling us through the facade of an old television that this is the third, or is it the fourth, anniversary of the shortest war in history, lasting 2 hours and 28 minutes. England is now a barren landscape, littered with derelict cars and buildings, hills of old boots, broken crockery, and other debris. Forty million people perished and there are only 20 known survivors. The Queen did not survive, and of the 20 known survivors the next in line for the throne is a Mrs Ethel Schroake of 393a High Street, Leytonstone. Among the other survivors are Ralph Richardson (O Lucky Man!) as Lord Fortnum of Alamein, who isn't looking forward to his impending mutation into a bed sitting room. Michael Hordern is Bules Martin, who wears a 18-carat Hovis bread ring. Spike Milligan is a postman who wanders around and delivers some memorable dialogue, for example And in come the three bears - the daddy bear said, 'Who's been sleeping in my porridge' - and the mummy bear said, 'that's no porridge, that was my wife' . Arthur Lowe is slowly turning into a parrot (which is then eaten by Spike Milligan), while his wife, the owner of her own death certificate, turns into a wardrobe. His daughter is pregnant with a strange creature, which she has held inside her for seventeen months. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are a pair of policemen who perpetually tell the others to keep moving!. Moore growls a lot and turns into a dog at the end. Marty Feldman is a wellington-boot-wearing nurse. It's a hilarious, absurdist treat, and one of my treasured filmic pleasures.
簡介:The movie is a throwback to a time when ordinary people enjoyed simple pleasures like going to their club, or taking in the pictures and growing their chrysanthemums in the adjoining greenhouse garden...so very British. It is these very ordinary people that some artists have a great sympathy and admiration for in our often self-serving world. Nothing extraordinary about the movie or the couple but almost 60 years on, the acting still makes it a delight to watch.
簡介:故事發(fā)生在1660年的法國,國王路易(理查德·查伯蘭 Richard Chamberlain 飾)整日沉湎于酒色之中,無心朝政,使臣民們生活在水深火熱之中。路易有一個孿生弟弟名為菲利普(理查德·查伯蘭 Richard Chamberlain 飾),史書中記載的菲利普剛剛出生便已夭折,可實(shí)際上,他被偷偷送往阿爾卑斯山的一個莊園中,隱姓埋名,生長在此。 國王的昏庸讓內(nèi)務(wù)大臣科貝爾(拉爾夫·理查德森 Ralph Richardson 飾)和火槍手隊(duì)長達(dá)達(dá)尼昂(路易斯·喬丹 Louis Jourdan 飾)感到大為不滿,他們決定找到菲利普,扶持他推翻哥哥的統(tǒng)治,登上王位。貪婪的財政大臣富凱(帕特里克·麥高漢 Patrick McGoohan 飾)早先一步找到了菲利普,他和國王一起設(shè)計,給菲利普帶上鐵面,投入了深牢之中。
簡介:故事發(fā)生在1660年的法國,國王路易(理查德·查伯蘭 Richard Chamberlain 飾)整日沉湎于酒色之中,無心朝政,使臣民們生活在水深火熱之中。路易有一個孿生弟弟名為菲利普(理查德·查伯蘭 Richard Chamberlain 飾),史書中記載的菲利普剛剛出生便已夭折,可實(shí)際上,他被偷偷送往阿爾卑斯山的一個莊園中,隱姓埋名,生長在此。 國王的昏庸讓內(nèi)務(wù)大臣科貝爾(拉爾夫·理查德森 Ralph Richardson 飾)和火槍手隊(duì)長達(dá)達(dá)尼昂(路易斯·喬丹 Louis Jourdan 飾)感到大為不滿,他們決定找到菲利普,扶持他推翻哥哥的統(tǒng)治,登上王位。貪婪的財政大臣富凱(帕特里克·麥高漢 Patrick McGoohan 飾)早先一步找到了菲利普,他和國王一起設(shè)計,給菲利普帶上鐵面,投入了深牢之中。