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- The Boy Friend (1971) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #TheBoyFriend
Working at the height of his formidable powers, Ken Russell braids a whole new layer of story onto the hit stage musical that made Julie Andrews a star and opens it up to some astonishing flights of fancy. Wrapping a narrative frame around the original - a seaside theatrical company mounts a production of the '20s musical spoof The Boy Friend - allows Russell, in turn, to explore and parody the conventions of '30s musicals with elaborate fantasy sequences, slapstick, and sentiment. This is the restored 'director's cut'/roadshow presentation!
Directed By Ken Russell
Starring Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian
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This must be the funniest, most clever, best (snap) co-ordinated dance sequence of the 70s. The moment they all accelerate, the scraping and tapping and the stomping on the piano lid....perfectly executed. What a delicious funny film this is.
I saw this movie for the first time on Criterion last week and it’s immediately a new favorite, (up there with the love I feel for Tarkovsky’s Stalker) I just can’t believe Ken Russell did this literally right after The Devil’s what a mad genius
The piano player is just vibing the entire movie.
If only this guy was around when the dance teacher said I was too tall. 🥰
This movie is underraaaattteeeeeddd!!!!
the obligatory mouthbreather is here with the "underrated" comment ... go away
I adore this song perhaps more than the others in the film. Midway when everyone starts dancing and singing as if they're lives depends on it, it turns into fireworks. Wow!
this scene is perfect
Mr Ken Russell was a national treasure. Genius❤
A perfect dance number elevated by all its hilarious, over-the-top imperfections.
That was a great, very stylish film. Peter Maxwell Davies did the musical arrangements and he caught the style easily and brilliantly. What a treat!
The whole film is an absolute delight. Try and catch a clip of Your Never Too Old To Fall In Love...Hilarious.
Love this movie. Antonia Ellis is superb in this
Ridiculously good film.
Saw this in the cinema in Barnsley twice over 50 years ago and loved it. It looked fantastic on the big screen. I even own the soundtrack on vynil. That must be worth a few quid today.
A highlight of a brilliant movie that wasn't appreciated in its time.
It's a shame Ms. Ellis never really took off in films. Not that you need to be a movie star to be a success, but she's obviously a real triple threat and there's not very much info on her beyond this film.
LOVE HER! She's wonderful.
I remember she played Cosima Wagner in Ken Russell's Mahler, but I don't recall ever seeing her in anything else.
For real. First time I saw this movie I was looking up what else she was in even before it was over, expecting her to be in a ton of other films. So shocked she isn't. She's phenomenal!
@@jasonhurd4379 She was a Moonbase Operator in UFO complete with purple wig
i think i watched this clip so many times im starting to notice the editing mistakes but its what makes it so damn good and charming!
I saw Tommy Tune perform in person at the Lancaster Festival. He's a simply amazing talent. His own account of meeting Fred Astaire had the audience roaring. Fred said, "You're a tall son-of-a-bitch, aren't you."
Cuanta energia ...!!!😃💖😉👌🌹🍃🌹🍃🌠💎🌠💎Deliciosa peli.La vi durante mi infancia y nunca la olvide.👀👏💝
Thrilling!
This is the musical in Ken Russell's world. Its brash, gaudy, in your face and hugely entertaining. The live force Russell generated in all his subjects, whether it was religion and politics or the sad denial of a famous composer guarantee their cult status for all game enough.
I want to watch this. Twiggy was in it. This almost feels like a precursor to the movie "Cabaret" released the following year.
I loved this movie. Twiggy acquitted herself very well in it.
it's nothing at all like Cabaret ... ferchrissakes, did you watch this?
Brilliant 'mockumentary'! I adore... I love the production's value and everything. So editorial!
Exactly! You can almost smell the greasepaint and desperation! As a theatre historian, I especially loved seeing the scenery mechanics at work, a holdover from 19th c melodramas. Apparently Arthur Brough (Mr. Grainger, Are You Being Served) and his wife ran a provincial playhouse for decades. Beautiful old Theatre Royal in Portsmouth.
@@heatherjones6647 Not to mention the delightfully Nelly chorus boys.
I don't think 'mockumentary' means what you think it means ... this isn't one
I love the fashion in this film I was about 7 when the 70s done an art deck revival this is a testament to the fashion of the day I love it more than bagpuss sorry but I do yawn the nostalgia of the nostalgia 70 s boutique doing the Charleston or was it the Riviera.Ken Russell was a brilliant film maker love that man
Christopher Gable....OMG, SHAREZ JEK!!!!
Julie Andrews was a star in the late 1940's.
I have always loved this film except the dream sequence which jars.
Antonia Ellis?very placer met you.😃🌹🍃💎🌠
Tommy Tune and Antonia Ellis
Who is that male actor that is dancing in this scene? Cause I think I have a type loll
Tommy Tune. Still good looking but considerably older.
sorry, Maisie! nobody wins a dance-off against Tommy Tune!!
she scares the fuck out'a me... 😆
the camera angles make you nauseous
that's cinema and not the muppet show silly
It was a dreadful film. A charm free multi million dollar turkey that vanished pretty much after it opened. Directed by Ken Russell, who made one great film - Women in Love. And that was it.
Nonsense- watch his films about the composers for the BBC and digest your headgear.
Please do not post such nonsense. THE BOYFRIEND only cost $2.7m as it was made on location in Britain. It's a comedy about British theatre. It had a phenominal following and always has. MGM released it in 70mm in 1971 where it played for months in first release. Successfully.
Kind of strange to think that the picture was originally going to be produced by Arthur Freed, who intended to film the Broadway musical more or less intact but with a cast of "new faces." He even had a screenplay written, but the project was rejected by MGM's then head of production, Robert Weitman.
@@balok63a40 Yes, had MGM made it in 1964 with Julie Andrews instead of THE AMERICANISATION OF EMILY there possibly would have been no THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE which Universal produced given MGM's mishandling of THE BOYFRIEND. However, what Russell did with it and his economy of budget (under $3m as was the new MGM demand) ...all this is a miracle.
Hugely prefer Ken Russell's movie of TOMMY to this nasty business. It's not so much a wasting of talent as it is his intrusion on our simple enjoyment.
Y A W N.