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Bookmark this pageAdult Fun (1972)
Director: James Scott
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From Time Out Film Guide
The influenza of Italian and French assaults on narrative film-making (during the '50s and '60s) eventually spread to Britain (in the '70s); and one of the more interesting cases is this rather opaque film. It looks very Godard-like in its combination and parody of genres (potboiler fiction, documentary, pseudo-documentary) and in its action-packed plot, which pivots on underworld crime as a young stockbroker suffering from feelings of alienation becomes nightmarishly involved, Graham Greene style, in industrial espionage. Scott got one step ahead of Godard, however, in the complex mixing of the soundtrack so that words do not merely accompany the image, but must be problematically deciphered against it.Author: DD
Cast & crew
Director: James Scott
Producer: Tim Van Rellim
Cast: Peter Marinker, Deborah Norton, Judy Liebert, Roger Booth, Ann Foster, Roger Hammond full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 102 mins
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