Posted on 06/01/2014 1:33:43 PM PDT by doug from upland
This free money giveway is even better than than the Twitter lunacy we are witnessing in the Bay Area, SoCal, and Colorado. FREE MONEY!
Watch people jump into a huge vat of cow fertilizer, urine, and blood to get the free money in the classic 1969 movie -- THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN. Quite a commentary on society.
“Watch people jump into a huge vat of cow fertilizer, urine, and blood “
Movie prop?
That’s a funny movie. I saw it years ago. I think some of the Pythons were involved in the writing. Terry Southern, of course, was another.
almost ready now....
Writing Credits:
Terry Southern ... (screenplay) &
Joseph McGrath ... (screenplay)
Terry Southern ... (novel)
Graham Chapman ... (additional material) &
John Cleese ... (additional material) &
Peter Sellers ... (additional material)
A big “wow, I didn’t notice him the first time I saw it.” Cast;
Yul Brynner...Transvestite Cabaret Singer (uncredited)
That was a fun movie.
There we go - Graham Chapman & Cleese. Southern wrote the novel, of course, as well as the screenplay. The movie has people doing anything for money - very funny.
The Magic Christian (1969) was right at the cusp of the hopelessly overindulgent 1960’s movies, and the extremely bizarre 1970’s movies. They really form a unique time when the movie studio system had collapsed, and directors and actors could run “hog wild”.
You can recognize a lot of the big names of British comedy and drama, including several from Monty Python, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough, etc. It is great midnight movie fare.
Some others in the genre:
Bedazzled (1967)
Casino Royale (1967)
The President’s Analyst (1967)
Barbarella (1968)
The Derek Flint and Matt Helm movies
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
El Topo (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Omega Man (1971)
THX-1138 (1971)
Silent Running (1972)
Dark Star (1974)
Zardoz (1974)
A Boy and his Dog (1975)
Rollerball (1975)
It was a weird and wild (and sometimes wonderful) period when the studios collapsed and censorship was thrown to the winds (and I speak as a huge fan of censorship within art). But, it was also the time of British cinema - something that played on my local channels when I was a kid. Peter Sellers! Richard Attenborough! Terence Stamp! Julie Christie! Tom Courteney! Albert Finney! Who can forget these great actors and stars who brightened the day when the only stuff on tv was My Mother The Car?
The original Casino Royale? I think they had Woody Allen playing James Bond in that one. Or ‘Jimmy Bond’.
The novel was far superior to the film, as satire often misses the mark when exported to the screen. It loses the bite.
The novel was far superior to the film, as satire often misses the mark when exported to the screen. It loses the bite. In this case satire was converted to uninspired farce.
Way to go eggman. You beat me to it and get the credit. The vat scene was one of the few things I remembered from the movie. Hey, it was 45 years ago. LOL
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