I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name
The Jokers
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I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name
Directed by Michael Winner.
With Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Carol White.
UK, 1967, 35mm, color, 97 min.
Print source: HFA
A successful advertising executive (Reed) with all of the trappings of the good life (big salary, devoted wife, beautiful mistresses) suddenly decides to throw it all away one day when he walks into his office with an axe and chops his desk into pieces. He journeys through Swinging London on a search for his integrity and finds it at a small literary publication. But his former boss (Welles) will stop at nothing to lure him back into the corporate world. Marianne Faithfull makes a memorable film debut shouting a never-before-heard-on-film expletive in an over-the-top television commercial.
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The Jokers
Directed by Michael Winner.
With Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews.
UK, 1967, 35mm, color, 94 min.
Print source: HFA
An inspired caper film, The Jokers focuses on two brothers, one a successful architect (Reed), the other a university dropout (Crawford), who become fed up with society and devise a scheme to steal the Crown Jewels. To carry out their plans, the hapless duo plant bombs all over town, leading them on a curious journey from the party circuits of Swinging London to the halls of Scotland Yard. The familiar heist scenario is given a breath of fresh air thanks to lively performances from Reed and Crawford.
Part of film series
Screenings from this program
Ballad of a Soldier / The Forty-First
Nightfall / Great Day in the Morning
Verboten! / Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name / The Jokers
Hearts of the World / True Heart Susie
Anna Christie / The Long Voyage Home
Suddenly Last Summer / The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Quiet Days in Clichy / Henry and June
The Freshman / The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Sheep Has Five Legs / The Law is the Law
Hobson's Choice / Sidewalks of London
I Know Where I'm Going / Outcast of the Islands
An Inspector Calls / The Belles of St. Trinian's
Mother Joan of the Angels / Thérèse
Dawn of the Dead / Strange Behavior
