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The Magic Christian (1969)
Director: Joseph McGrath
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An extravagant, undisciplined adaptation of Terry Southern's biting satire on the power of money - the plot is little but a stringing together of various hoaxes and practical jokes perpetrated by an eccentric multi-millionaire (Sellers) on a greedy populace - The Magic Christian is all too clearly representative of the impasse independent mainstream film-making found itself in when given its head by the industry in the '60s. The result is a variety concert of a film in which most of the acts/jokes fall flat.Author: PH
Cast & crew
Director: Joseph McGrath
Producer: Denis O'Dell
Cast: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Richard Attenborough, Laurence Harvey, Christopher Lee, Spike Milligan, Yul Brynner, Roman Polanski, Raquel Welch, Dennis Price, John Cleese full cast
Duration: 95 mins
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