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French Dressing (1964) Ken Russell; James Booth, Roy Kinnear, Marisa Mell

French Dressing (1964) Ken Russell; James Booth, Roy Kinnear, Marisa Mell

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Widescreen. Ken Russell's first feature film is an engaging comedy about a stodgy British resort. Gormleigh-by-the-Sea is a holiday community besotted with dullness. But things liven up when Jim (James Booth), a young deck-chair attendant, convinces the local entertainment director and mayor into starting a film festival. The town convinces an ambitious French actress to be the star of the festival. What happens after that is a series of near disasters -- including the failure of a nudist beach and a riot at a film premiere. It is left to Jim's American journalist girlfriend (Alita Naughton) to save the situation and the reputation of the town.

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Robert Deveau from Dorchester, MA United States
November 3, 2015
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Not terribly funny, but interesting
Ken Russell's feature film debut. While not terribly funny, despite the antics of Bryan Pringle as the Mayor and Roy Kinnear as his beleaguered toady, it has its amusing and inventive moments (the Mayor and City Council in 1920's style bathing suits cavorting around a bikinied Mell; an astounding tracking shot down "the longest pier in Britain" and a melee in a cinema with brawlers emerging from M
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