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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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  • @paulbrennan3816
    @paulbrennan3816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    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.

  • @verb5517
    @verb5517 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This movie is underraaaattteeeeeddd!!!!

  • @annoldham3018
    @annoldham3018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If only this guy was around when the dance teacher said I was too tall. 🥰

  • @orpheus9037
    @orpheus9037 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A perfect dance number elevated by all its hilarious, over-the-top imperfections.

  • @starlightpancake
    @starlightpancake 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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

  • @nycbassist1955
    @nycbassist1955 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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!

  • @ctmagnus760
    @ctmagnus760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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!

  • @offbeat65
    @offbeat65 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Ridiculously good film.

  • @swordscot
    @swordscot 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Love this movie. Antonia Ellis is superb in this

  • @valr561
    @valr561 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    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!

  • @euphrania9587
    @euphrania9587 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mr Ken Russell was a national treasure. Genius❤

  • @whitepillprole8265
    @whitepillprole8265 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The piano player is just vibing the entire movie.

  • @rbj8387
    @rbj8387 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    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.

    • @ctmagnus760
      @ctmagnus760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      LOVE HER! She's wonderful.

    • @jasonhurd4379
      @jasonhurd4379 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I remember she played Cosima Wagner in Ken Russell's Mahler, but I don't recall ever seeing her in anything else.

    • @verb5517
      @verb5517 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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!

  • @stephenwilliams944
    @stephenwilliams944 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The whole film is an absolute delight. Try and catch a clip of Your Never Too Old To Fall In Love...Hilarious.

  • @MicaRayan
    @MicaRayan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Brilliant 'mockumentary'! I adore... I love the production's value and everything. So editorial!

    • @heatherjones6647
      @heatherjones6647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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.

    • @MrCrowebobby
      @MrCrowebobby 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@heatherjones6647 Not to mention the delightfully Nelly chorus boys.

  • @nazwa6
    @nazwa6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thrilling!

  • @hanschristianbrando5588
    @hanschristianbrando5588 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A highlight of a brilliant movie that wasn't appreciated in its time.

  • @user-sm7dr9bk5u
    @user-sm7dr9bk5u 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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."

  • @vidform
    @vidform 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I want to watch this. Twiggy was in it. This almost feels like a precursor to the movie "Cabaret" released the following year.

    • @ahermannblue
      @ahermannblue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I loved this movie. Twiggy acquitted herself very well in it.

  • @isammolina4842
    @isammolina4842 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cuanta energia ...!!!😃💖😉👌🌹🍃🌹🍃🌠💎🌠💎Deliciosa peli.La vi durante mi infancia y nunca la olvide.👀👏💝

  • @billycrick9477
    @billycrick9477 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @kikidee3204
    @kikidee3204 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @SuperWolsey
    @SuperWolsey 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Christopher Gable....OMG, SHAREZ JEK!!!!

  • @ritawing1064
    @ritawing1064 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wonderful film! Why has a dvd never been available?

  • @mga2899
    @mga2899 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Julie Andrews was a star in the late 1940's.

  • @isammolina4842
    @isammolina4842 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Antonia Ellis?very placer met you.😃🌹🍃💎🌠

  • @forresteredin
    @forresteredin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I have always loved this film except the dream sequence which jars.

  • @derbystardom
    @derbystardom ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tommy Tune and Antonia Ellis

  • @burpie_b0wie
    @burpie_b0wie 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Who is that male actor that is dancing in this scene? Cause I think I have a type loll

    • @MrCrowebobby
      @MrCrowebobby 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Tommy Tune. Still good looking but considerably older.

  • @jemmoto9323
    @jemmoto9323 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    she scares the fuck out'a me... 😆

  • @BlakeJAskew
    @BlakeJAskew 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    the camera angles make you nauseous

    • @gouvyrock
      @gouvyrock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      that's cinema and not the muppet show silly

  • @jochenstossberg5427
    @jochenstossberg5427 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

    • @ferguscrystal6315
      @ferguscrystal6315 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nonsense- watch his films about the composers for the BBC and digest your headgear.

    • @paulbrennan3816
      @paulbrennan3816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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.

    • @balok63a40
      @balok63a40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @paulbrennan3816
      @paulbrennan3816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

  • @stevenl8054
    @stevenl8054 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.