Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Take a Girl Like You (1969 Jonathan Miller)

Poor young Hayley Mills, who comes down from 'up North' only to be immediately harassed by lecherous landlord (John Bird), annoyingly persistent lecturer Oliver Reed, ineffectual bore (Ronald Lacey) and nonchalant rich-boy Noel Harrison.

We can sort of see how it's going to turn out, though admittedly I had seen this before, on 10 January 1979! Pretty cynical really, from Kingsley Amis novel.

Shot by Dick Bush and edited by Jack Harris, so decently done.

Were any really good films made in 1969?*

If I had time to take screen shots any more, it would be this one, with the caption "Bring one for the tiger!"
* P.S. 9/5/20. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch and  The Italian Job spring to mind...

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