Word: crowden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast, besides the commendably sardonic Finch, includes some always reliable character types (Griffith, Hayden, Graham Crowden, Patrick Magee, George Coulouris), and Miss Runacre, a skillful actress, who looks smashing into the bargain. The Last Days of Man on Earth, fractured and funny, is an authentic curiosity. Pace Woody Allen, it is a true sleeper, a movie both of substantial flaw and surprise. When one of the scientists announces with pride that the group has "the best brains in Eu rope working for us," and when it is shown just what he means, Allen would recognize a kindred anarchic spirit...
...seem incapable of a disingenuous moment. The rest of the small cast is made up of worthies the Little Prince meets on his trip past the lesser galactic bodies toward earth-Victor Spinetti as a historian, Clive Revill as a businessman who claims he owns all the stars, Graham Crowden as a general without a single soldier in his army Once on earth, the Little Prince meets a shy, friendly fox (Gene Wilder) and the aforementioned snake, played by Bob Fosse, who choreographed his own number He dances it with such undulating grace and molten charm that the show...
Besides McDowell, the superb cast includes Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Dandy Nichols, Mona Washbourne and Graham Crowden, each of whom appears in at least two different roles. This is done to underscore the prevailing sense of strangeness, to give everything an eerie continuity and, quite characteristically and properly, just for the merry hell...