I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to... See full summary »

Director:

Michael Winner

Writer:

Peter Draper

Stars:

Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Carol White

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Orson Welles	...	Jonathan Lute
Oliver Reed	...	Andrew Quint
Carol White	...	Georgina Elben
Harry Andrews	...	Gerald Sater
Michael Hordern	...	Headmaster
Wendy Craig	...	Louise Quint
Norman Rodway	...	Nicholas
Marianne Faithfull	...	Josie
Frank Finlay	...	Chaplain
Ann Lynn	...	Carla
Harvey Hall	...	Charles Maccabee
Lyn Ashley	...	Susannah
Edward Fox	...	Walter
Basil Dignam
Mark Burns	...	Michael Cornwall

Storyline

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.

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Plot Keywords:

advertising | nudity | apostrophe in title | career | mistress | 

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Taglines:

He smashed up his desk, gave up a wife, three mistresses and went back to the simple life. Then his troubles really started!

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 February 1968 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname

Filming Locations:

Troubadour, 265 Old Brompton Road, Kensington, London, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Scimitar Productions, Universal Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The BBFC originally requested the complete removal of Josie's single use of 'fucking' for the film's cinema release. A compromise was reached between the censors and Michael Winner, and instead the word was partly obscured by the sound of a car horn.

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Quotes

[Often cited as the first time the word "fuck" was heard in the cinema]
Josie: Get out of here, you fucking bastard!

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Connections

References The Walking Dead (1936)

User Reviews

The swinging sixties grows up

Although constructed around "swinging " London this tale of futility in the pursuit of happiness endures. Oliver Reed will come as a surprise to most people who would not have thought the latter day hell raiser could deliver such a sensitive performance as the central character Andrew Quint.

A successful advertising exec Quint belabours the notion of a simple life and eschews the trappings of his current situation ( both professional and domestic ) to work at a small literary magazine with a friend from his days at Oxford. These trappings include two mistresses and an ex wife. The scenes with the mistresses are perhaps the least pleasing of the whole film.

"I never really saw the money anyway, it came in and went out ; if I felt like being successful I'd go and buy a new shirt"

A series of symbolic events unfold ( most notably a public school reunion and the pointless death of his new girlfriend )which only serve in Quint considering joining an equally exploitative competitor to the ad agency he quit at the outset.