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Overview

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Director:
Joseph McGrath
Writers:
Terry Southern (novel)
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Release Date:
12 December 1969 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
The Magic Christian is: antiestablishmentarian, antibellum, antitrust, antiseptic, antibiotic, antisocial & antipasto.
Plot:
A series of strange sequences connected with a satire on greed. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Funny, But Unsettling more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Peter Sellers ... Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE

Ringo Starr ... Youngman Grand, Esq.
Isabel Jeans ... Dame Agnes Grand
Caroline Blakiston ... Hon. Esther Grand
Wilfrid Hyde-White ... Capt. Reginald K. Klaus

Richard Attenborough ... Oxford coach
Leonard Frey ... Laurence Faggot

Laurence Harvey ... Hamlet

Christopher Lee ... Ship's vampire
Spike Milligan ... Traffic warden #27

Roman Polanski ... Solitary drinker

Raquel Welch ... Priestess of the Whip
Tom Boyle ... My Man Jeff
Victor Maddern ... Hot dog vendor
Terence Alexander ... Mad Major
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Additional Details

Runtime:
92 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:15 (video rating) | UK:A (original rating) | Iceland:L | USA:M (original rating) | USA:PG

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Trivia:
Portions of the movie were filmed aboard the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth II. John Lennon and Yoko Ono hoped to board the ship during filming and travel to the United States, but were not allowed, due to Lennon's being denied a US visa. Lookalikes were filmed boarding instead. more
Quotes:
Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE: [voiceover, as a £10 note appears onscreen] Ladies and gentlemen, this is what is commonly known as money. It comes in all sizes, colours, and denominations - like people. We'll be using quite a bit of it in the next two hours... luckily I have enough for ALL of us. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: (#3.26)" (1970) more
Soundtrack:
Carry On Till Tomorrow more

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What is antipasto?
What is antisocial?
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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Funny, But Unsettling, 17 January 2008
7/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

One day the fabulously wealthy Sir Guy Grand who is Peter Sellers with a much larger nose finds a young orphan kid in a park. On the spur of the moment he adopts young Ringo Starr, probably because Ringo has a well known honker in real life and Sellers sees something of himself in Ringo.

The idea is that Sellers has to have someone not just to leave his money to, but someone to impart his accumulated wisdom of the years which is boiled up into one single thought; that EVERYBODY has his price.

The rest of the film is a Monty Pythonesque group of skits in which Sellers tries to prove just that to Starr. They range from Laurence Harvey doing a striptease while doing Hamlet's soliloquy to a beat cop eating a parking ticket for 500 pounds. The title The Magic Christian refers to a Titanic like cruise ship that only caters to the upper crust. Sellers and Starr integrate that ship's maiden voyage in a most interesting fashion.

That the film is like Monty Python is no accident with Graham Chapman and John Cleese doing the writing. Ringo's former Beatle companero, Paul McCartney wrote The Magic Christian theme, Come and Get It which sums up the philosophy of the film.

After almost 40 years, The Magic Christian is acidly funny, but a still unsettling.

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