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’.