Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MORGAN! Two gifted young British actors, David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave, enliven a way-out comedy about an eccentric London painter who is destroyed by his love for his divorced wife, his mother, Karl Marx and King Kong...
...phone boxes, a blend of "flash" American, polished Continental and robust old English influence that mixes and merges in London today. The result is a sparkling, slapdash comedy not unlike those directed for the screen by Britain's own Tony (Tom Jones) Richardson or Czech Emigre Karel (Morgan!) Reisz, and filmed by Director Richard (Help!) Lester, a fugitive from Philadelphia, who uses the sudden stills and the hurry-up time that he learned filming advertising commercials...
This spring, film makers from all over the world have been attracted to London by its swinging film industry, whose latest export to the U.S. is Morgan!, a hilarious piece of insanity. Charlie Chaplin is making The Countess from Hong Kong with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren. Francois Truffaut is just finishing Fahrenheit 451 with Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. Roman Polanski is making a horror satire called The Vampire Killers. Robert Aldrich is starting up a war film called The Dirty Dozen, and Sidney Lumet is working with Maximilian Schell, James Mason and Simone Signoret in The Deadly Affair...
...MORGAN, a junior Dizzy Gillespie, last year unexpectedly found his jazz LP, The Sidewinder, winding its way inexorably up the country's bestseller charts. Now along comes The Rumproller (Blue Note), which is overflowing with Morgan's fluent and expressive trumpeting and some good tenor-sax playing by Joe Henderson. The title piece is a bit ponderous, with more rump than roll, but Morgan's composition Eclipso is a humorous bit of hopscotch through calypsoland, and The Lady is a dreamlike, moving ballad for Billie Holiday...
...MORGAN! Two gifted young British actors, David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave, enliven a way-out comedy about an eccentric London painter who is destroyed by his love for his divorced wife, his mother, Karl Marx and King Kong...