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Tony Palmer (writer)
Release Date:
9 November 1991 (UK) more
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Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity. | add synopsis
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1 nomination more
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Good ensemble cast recreate british watershed more (1 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Hugh Grant | ... | Richard Neville |
 | Peter O'Brien | ... | Jim Anderson |
 | Kevin Allen | ... | Felix Dennis |
| Leslie Phillips | ... | Judge Michael Argyle |
| Nigel Hawthorne | ... | Brian Leary |
| Simon Callow | ... | John Mortimer |
| Alex Langdon | ... | Vivien Berger |
| David Troughton | ... | Detective Inspector Luff |
 | Alfred Molina | ... | George Melly |
| Jemma Redgrave | ... | Caroline Coon |
| Nicholas Farrell | ... | Dr. Michael Schofield |
| Helena Kaut-Howson | ... | Doctor Josephine Klein |
| Damien Thomas | ... | Dr. Edward de Bono |
| Nigel Planer | ... | John Peel |
| Joe Melia | ... | Felicks Topolski |
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90 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Simon Callow plays real-life barrister and author John Mortimer. Mortimer created the character of "Rumpole of the Bailey" (1978), writing not only the Rumpole novels but also every episode of the television series based on them. more
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Brian Leary:
Earl's Court being an area of London famous for male perverts.
Richard Neville:
It's famous for Australians.
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Following the rather highbrow legal dispute over Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1963, the Oz trials legitimised the 60s counter-culture in the UK, with representatives of Swinging London, from cult DJ John Peel (still going, bless him) to jazz-man and art collector George Melly, called upon to give evidence in defense of the Oz editors, who, perhaps naively, had given over control of the magazine to some schoolboys - who of course produced and printed some of the most hilariously and/or disturbingly obscene material to be found on the shelves of a UK newsagent. The great cast make the most of their cameos as real people, while the court transcripts and re-enactments meant that those of us who never got hold of the offending copy of Oz can see what all the fuss was about: and it still provokes laughter, horror and a deep unease about the British school system.