An artistic statement about relationships?Bold?Daring?I don’t think so,a croc of sh… is the correct term,but feel free to disagree,even though you would be wrong to.

An artistic statement about relationships?Bold?Daring?I don’t think so,a croc of sh… is the correct term,but feel free to disagree,even though you would be wrong to.

Just because this is anti-nazi and was a brave statement when made is no reason not to say that it’s awful.Satire?The pidgin German is not hilarious,it may have been once I have no idea,but now it’s cringeworthy,as are Chaplin’s funny walks and gestures.Can anyone let me know of one funny moment in the film?
Ok,it denounced Hitler but it is of the same artistic value as the anti nazi cartoons of the war.Sorry.
Wonder why no mention of Stalin as he was Hitler’s ally at the time.
A worthy speech at the end,but it doesn’t save the film.

Worth it to hear,”as soon as I hang up the phone” which is just about the cheesiest country song I have ever heard,vile vile vile,and “the pill” a song about,yes,the pill.

So Martin did you find true love?Perhaps if you hadn’t looked like such a smug whatever it would have been easier,but then again looks don’t matter,do they?

This was the Brit version,slight differences to the US version,was the first”mod” record I bought,as opposed to rock.What bloody stupid terminology.Prefer this cover to the American one

I read that while DDL was shooting the film he insisted on staying in the role all day as part of his method,this included being carried to the toilet and having his bottom cleaned.If this is true,a big if,he is a twat and will be one of the first actors up against the wall when I’m named world benevolent leader and dictator.Good performance as Christy Brown,though.

Very nice,indeed,very easy listening,just one thought,are the songs not all a tad similar?Sinatra had a great voice that’s clear but is he stretching himself here?

Apparently the book which inspired this was a figment of its author’s imagination, add to that the Hollywood touch and you can hardly expect social realism,look at those miners’ cottages and the meals they ate!
OK the pro union comments and mention of workers conditions were probably provocative at the time,as would have been the attack on strident religious beliefs,but all seems quite tame today.
It is worth watching to see this Hollywood version of the past which I am sure never existed and to see Maureen O’Hara,don’t forget to enjoy the wooden delivery of their dialogue by her brothers in the film,classic.
As a footnote it’s good that people don’t have to go down the mines anymore in Wales,although of course that was nothing to do with workers health or conditions just hard economics and was a disaster for those who lost their jobs.

Good grief this is appalling.I don’t care what list you’re working on it’s not worth wasting an hour and a half of your life on this,sit in a bath of cold water with the light off it’s better fun.Well,ok there is a certain rockyhorrorshowesque pleasure of watching the unwatchable but really,this is beyond kitsch,dire in the extreme.