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The Magic Christian

Peter Sellers (Actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Actor), Joseph McGrath (Director) Format: DVD

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Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Sir Guy Grand adopts homeless bum Youngman to be heir to his obscene wealth, and immediately begins bringing him into the intricacies of the family business, which is to prey upon people's greed by use of the vast holdings of the Grand empire. They leave no stone unturned as sporting events, restaurants, art galleries, and traditional pheasant hunts turn into lurid displays of bad manners and profiteering. Things climax at the social event of the season, the inaugural voyage of the new pleasure cruiser The Magic Christian. ...The Magic Christian

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Language ‏ : ‎ English
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 83.16 Grams
Director ‏ : ‎ Joseph McGrath
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Import, PAL
Run time ‏ : ‎ 101 minutes
Actors ‏ : ‎ Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Attenborough, Christopher Lee, Spike Milligan
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Studio ‏ : ‎ LA Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009KYY7BK
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Natalie

This hasn't aged well

Reviewed in Australia on 11 February 2019

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Bought it for Ringo, but the jokes don't really work anymore. It has dated quite badly.

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Monty Marwood

Vive la revolution!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2018

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I was just saying to my wife recently that I’d always longed to see a film where Laurence Harvey does a striptease while performing Hamlet, a transvestite Yul Brynner sings ‘Mad About The Boy’ on a cruise ship, a galley of naked females are whipped by Raquel Welch and a bunch of bowler-hatted businessmen dive into a huge vat of excrement (mixed with blood & urine) in order to extract thousands of soiled bank notes. With a theme song written by Paul McCartney, choreography by Lionel Blair and various Goons and Pythons thrown in to boot.

My wife told me I had an over-active imagination and advised me to stop taking the tablets. But then I happened upon this peculiarity…huzza!

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J. Pagett

What just happened?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2019

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Surely one of the candidates for the worst film ever made, with the most talented group of actors. Despite this, shouts out to Yul Brynner, for a commited performance as a drag artiste, beautifully b-lining for a shifty looking Roman Polanski, his go to acting face. Also much kudos to classical actor Laurence Harvey, in a tastfully shot scene where he strips totally bare during the famous soliloquy from Hamlet (I'm sure David Tennant would be up for that!). But the uptight racist major being lapdanced by a pair of oiled-up muscle men has to win the prize. When I think of all those scenes, I'm being a bit mean with the stars, but you have to sift through an awful lot of rubbish to get to the good stuff. But isn't that just like life, eh? Oh, and Peter Sellars and Ringo are in it. It was the 60s (just). Peace out.

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Andy Willey,film historian.

unfunny comedy.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 November 2020

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What agreat cast line up must be one of the funniest films ever,but No,i sat through it and did not laugh once my finger hovered over the stop button,agony I could not believe what i was watching a comedy film withouit any comedy.
Why then did i give it a one star rating ?purely for the apperance of Christopher lee as Dracula at the end but really go watch the Hammer classics if you want some Dracula action,completest like myself own this for that alone such an awful film really.

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The Village Bike

MAGIC CHRISTIAN

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2014

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In a way a prototype Python film. I like this film because it is highly eccentric British humour and although I have watched it many times I can confess I have never understood all the humour and I'm a die hard comedy lover.

I think the the bit with Spike Milligan as the traffic warden is very funny and you can see that they still admired each other and I guess a lot of it was ad libbed.

The film was made a very small budget at Twickenham film studios and on location in SW London.

Love the film score and all of Peter Seller's old mates who were in the film. Perhaps he was trying to recreate the success of his British comedy films in the late 50s early 60s but I think by the late 60's tv comedy was entering its golden age, and he rarely did TV parts and perhaps he was too much in love with process of making films and being a film star plus he was also a film buff/ keen photographer.

An under- rated film which is not shown enough on TV.

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P. W. Ruck

this is one of my favorite 60s films

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2018

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Albeit a film not usually looked upon as a classic, this is one of my favorite 60s films. With the storyline soaked in Satire, about the methods used by Wealthy Socialite & free-thinker Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) and his newly adopted son Youngman Grand (Ringo Starr) to find out how far people would go to gain thousands of pounds of money, this also makes fun of the effects that money also has on the upper/rich classes, with a stiff 'middle finger' silently being pointed in their direction while being made fun at by Grand & co. It has some value, if a little dated, of the morals of money in today's society I thought. Funny & very bizarre too, featuring a lot of great cameos by Spike Milligan, Pythons' John Cleese & Graham Chapman & Christopher Lee too. A nice, if slightly grainy Blu-Ray transfer.

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