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After his wife leaves him for his former best friend, a failed London artist begins his descent into madness in trying to win her back.After his wife leaves him for his former best friend, a failed London artist begins his descent into madness in trying to win her back.After his wife leaves him for his former best friend, a failed London artist begins his descent into madness in trying to win her back.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 4 wins & 12 nominations total
Angus MacKay
- Best Man
- (as Angus Mackay)
Jack Armstrong
- Guest at Wedding Reception
- (uncredited)
Bernard Barnsley
- Workman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaVanessa Redgrave's Best Actress Oscar nomination for this movie coincided with sister Lynn Redgrave's similar nomination for Georgy Girl (1966). Such a coincidence had occurred only once before when sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland respectively vied for the Best Actress Oscar for Suspicion (1941) and Hold Back the Dawn (1941).
- GoofsCrew reflected in the window of the car that Leonie gets into at the start of the film.
- Quotes
Morgan Delt: Nothing in this world seems to live up to my best fantasies, except you.
- ConnectionsEdited from King Kong (1933)
Featured review
Trotsky Goes Ape
There aren't too many whimsical comedies with a Trotskyite sub text, so for that alone let us give thanks, but there's a whole lot more to enjoy here. Vanessa Redgrave for one, looking wonderful as the posh girl who dumps her eccentric husband in favour of stability, shows a real gift for light comedy, Karel Reisz's direction is always inventive and makes good use of inserts from King Kong and Tarzan, and then there's the world's most wonderful couple: Arthur Mullard and Irene Handl.
Warner's performance as Morgan depends how you feel about children who refuse to grow up, though he does become more sympathetic eventually. The Trotsky element comes from writer David Mercer, a renowned playwright and communist of the day and though class figures prominently in the film, it is never didactic. The screenplay is based on a TV play he'd wrote and in a unusual reversal of roles was watered down somewhat for the cinema. The ending turns into the full-blown surrealism that always threatened and there's a great, almost-last line from the Morgan himself: "I've gone all furry".
Warner's performance as Morgan depends how you feel about children who refuse to grow up, though he does become more sympathetic eventually. The Trotsky element comes from writer David Mercer, a renowned playwright and communist of the day and though class figures prominently in the film, it is never didactic. The screenplay is based on a TV play he'd wrote and in a unusual reversal of roles was watered down somewhat for the cinema. The ending turns into the full-blown surrealism that always threatened and there's a great, almost-last line from the Morgan himself: "I've gone all furry".
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- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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