Word: newley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Small World of Sammy Lee. Anthony Newley, of Stop the World-/ Want to Get Off, has gotten off at a Soho bump-and-grindery where he is the frantically busy master of ceremonies with several illicit deals on the side. As the fast-running Sammy, Newley is wickedly sly, inwardly terrified, foolishly hopeful in this sordid and often biting slice-of-life film...
...Small World of Sammy Lee. Anthony Newley, of Stop the World-/ Want to Get Off, has gotten off at a Soho bump-and-grindery where he is the frantically busy master of ceremonies with several illicit deals on the side. As the fast-running Sammy, Newley is wickedly sly, inwardly terrified, foolishly hopeful in this sordid and often biting slice-of-life film...
...keeps on running till he's too trottin' tired to remember what makes Sammy run. Money, of course. Sammy (Anthony Newley) is chasing the ochre and he is chasing it hard, because if he can't catch up with 300 quid before sunset, some very unpleasant people are going to catch up with him-it seems his bookie is disinclined to spiv and let spiv...
...running wild-his film falls flat on its face at the finish but in its maddest moments generates the glorious ungartered go of a Charlie Chase chase. What's more, Cameraman Wolfgang Suschitzky supplies some hilariously horrible glimpses of the crummy comether that passes for Sohociety. And Actor Newley (who can also be seen in Broadway's Stop the World-I Want to Get Off) is a wickedly sly young comedian who keeps the customers whooping happily-until they realize that he is tickling their ribs with a very long and rather nasty-looking needle...
Sammy, as Newley sees him, is not really a figure of fun. Take him out of Soho, he is any little man in any big city. Like a mechanical rabbit, he runs eternally from an economy that is always catching up with him toward a security that never quite arrives. Unlike a mechanical rabbit, he is terrified. Yet in his terror he finds the nobility to hope. In his terror, as a matter of fact, he finds the unmitigated gall to hope against hope that the people who see him running around in circles will think he is a wheel...