The Boy Friend G
The star has injured an ankle, but the show -- and inexperienced stage assistant Polly Browne -- must go on. Fashion icon Twiggy makes her screen debut as sweet-natured Polly, a role played earlier by Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 2 hours, 16 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 27, 2011
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Twiggy & Christopher Gable | |
Performer: | Max Adrian, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin, Moyra Fraser, Vladek Sheybal, Barbara Windsor & Tommy Tune | |
Directed by | Ken Russell | |
Edited by | Michael Bradsell | |
Screenplay by | Ken Russell | |
Produced by | Ken Russell | |
Director of Photography: | David Watkin |
Entertainment Reviews:
It is an acute, duplicitous, discomfiting movie whose message, finally, is that all times are tough for the people who must live through them, and glow golden only for those who survive them, or imagine them.
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LIFE
Consistency was never Russell's strong point.
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Time Out
Rating: B- --
Ken Russell's film version of the popular stage musical is, as expected, extravagant and campy in style, but it has charm and fashion model Twiggy shows interesting screen presence.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3/4 --
THE BOY FRIEND is a sincere celebration of the musical from a camp point of view. And let it be said Russell discovered Tommy Tune many years before Broadway did.
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TV Guide
Delirious, hilarious, visually dazzling
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
More a lesson in style (Ken Russell) than anything memorable, even with Twiggy.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: 5/5 --
for restored director's cut
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Description by OLDIES.com:
The star has injured an ankle, but the show -- and inexperienced stage assistant Polly Browne -- must go on. Break a leg, kid. And don't let the presence of Hollywood director and talent scout Mr. De Thrill add any pressure. And so begins this colorful tale of theater hopefuls with stars in their eyes and greasepaint in their veins, a work that, under the guidance of director Ken Russell, is not just an affectionate filmization of Sandy Wilson's London/Broadway stage hit but also an homage to the movie stagings of Busby Berkeley -- complete with imaginative use of kaleidoscopic top shots and rows of leggy chorines. Fashion icon Twiggy makes her screen debut as sweet-natured Polly, a role played earlier by Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut. Curtain up. Maybe someone will be discovered tonight.
Product Description:
A new star is born when the leading lady of this second rate theatre troupe sprains her ankle. The pretty assistant stage manager is ready to step in. But when the cast discovers that there is a Hollywood director in the audience this night, everyone has illusions of stardom. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song Score.
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