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The Ghosts of Oxford Street

  • TV Movie
  • 19911991
  • 53m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
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The Ghosts of Oxford Street (1991)
Music
Join The Happy Mondays, Rebel MC, Sir Tom Jones, Sinead O'Connor, The Pogues, and Kirsty MacColl in a musical celebration of Oxford Street, this retail mecca and its history.Join The Happy Mondays, Rebel MC, Sir Tom Jones, Sinead O'Connor, The Pogues, and Kirsty MacColl in a musical celebration of Oxford Street, this retail mecca and its history.Join The Happy Mondays, Rebel MC, Sir Tom Jones, Sinead O'Connor, The Pogues, and Kirsty MacColl in a musical celebration of Oxford Street, this retail mecca and its history.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
47
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    • Malcolm McLaren
    • Rebecca Frayn
    • Malcolm McLaren
  • Stars
    • Tom Jones
    • Sinéad O'Connor
    • Shaun Ryder
    • Malcolm McLaren
    • Rebecca Frayn
    • Malcolm McLaren
  • Stars
    • Tom Jones
    • Sinéad O'Connor
    • Shaun Ryder
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    • 3User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Tom Jones
    Tom Jones
    • Gordon Selfridge
    Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor
    • Ann of Oxford Street
    Shaun Ryder
    Shaun Ryder
      Rowetta Satchell
        Rebel MC
        Shane MacGowan
        Shane MacGowan
        • Duke of York
        Kirsty MacColl
        Kirsty MacColl
        • Kitty Fisher
        Alison Limerick
        • Performer
        John Altman
        John Altman
        • Thomas De Quincey
        Bryony Brind
        • Principal Dancer
        Leigh Bowery
        Leigh Bowery
        • King George
        Anne Lambton
        Anne Lambton
        • Lady Archer
        Malcolm McLaren
        Malcolm McLaren
        • Narrator
        Matthew Byam Shaw
        • Gossip
        John Pickard
        John Pickard
        • Young Malcolm
        Tommy Roberts
        • Stall holder
        Nick Musker
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          • Malcolm McLaren
          • Rebecca Frayn
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        • Goofs
          Near the beginning, when Malcolm McLaren throws a brick with "MAGIC'S BACK" written on it through a window, there is the sound of breaking glass but no broken glass as it hits the floor. A few seconds later, when Alison Limerick picks the same brick up, there is broken glass everywhere.
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          Written by Malcolm McLaren, Mike Stock, Pete Waterman

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        5/10
        Retail for the situationist
        I remember this being over-hyped when it was first shown on Channel 4. Then again directed by, co written by, starring and narrated by Malcolm McLaren what else can we expect.

        The has been Svengali who never could manage to find the next Sex Pistols or that number one record which he always claimed he could get with the click of his fingers turned his sights to the history of Oxford Street.

        The disreputable old fibber still manages to add some personal association to the history of Oxford Street, whether its some ancestor being hung or his mother having an affair with a retail magnate or a younger McLaren causing havoc in Selfridges.

        At least McLaren has toned down his attitude but the narration does get tiring. Still the images of early 1990s Oxford Street has itself become a period piece with some of the shops such as Ratners no longer in existence.

        However with the history of Oxford Street we have dance, music and songs. Choreography by Bruno Tonioli. Tom Jones as Gordon Selfridge is the most memorable singing Money (Beatles version). You have Happy Mondays doing Staying Alive, Rebel MC adds some street rap, and the late Kirsty Maccoll & Shane Pogue reprise The fairytale of New York to add some festive spirit.

        The whole piece is not as good as it was hyped to be, its a bit of a mish mash, Leigh Bowery could not act, some of the tales were not that interesting. Curious but not a festive classic.
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        • Oct 12, 2014

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          • December 25, 1991 (United Kingdom)
          • United Kingdom
          • English
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          • Middlemarch Films
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