SMASHING TIME - full movie - 1967 - Rita Tushingham & Lynn Redgrave
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- "Smashing Time is a 1967 British comedy film starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave. It is a satire on the 1960s media-influenced phenomenon of Swinging London.
It was written by George Melly and directed by Desmond Davis. The supporting cast included Ian Carmichael, Michael York, Jeremy Lloyd, Anna Quayle, Irene Handl, Arthur Mullard and Geoffrey Hughes.
Some of the characters' names are borrowed from Lewis Carroll's poetry, chiefly the nonsense poem Jabberwocky: Charlotte Brillig, Tom Wabe, Mrs Gimble, Bobby Mome-Rath, Jeremy Tove, and The Snarks (the rock band played by Tomorrow). Additionally the futuristic art exhibition is held at the Jabberwock Gallery.
Private Eye magazine referred to the Queen and Princess Margaret as Brenda and Yvonne (respectively). The film also implies that the Queen is a fan of Yvonne's single."
i was an extra in this film with my then girl friend....They wanted me and her as we both had long hair and from the back looked similar. It was the scene in the early morning when the two girls walk past a long haired couple whic h was us. I am also the long haired guy sitting playing a guitar in the party scene......cheers. jasper
jasperhappy Hey Jasper What a cool claim to fame, Do you mind answering How old where you both? & Can you remember what was the most important to you at that time? How did you get discovered so to speak? It's great that fashion just keeps going around and around this generations fashion has been back in style so many times, I adore films like this xx
That is so cool Jasper. What a memory!
Love this
Movie!!
Wow, that’s must have been fun for you.
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I loved watching this movie - laughed so much!! Thanks for uploading.
I love this movie,I can't sing but I'm young !!
That song...have you seen Earth Girls Are Easy? The "I'm A Blonde" song? Its nearly the same.
+Fiona Beswick I recall that movie,but can't recall the song u speak off,now I've got to watch it on here if I can find it. Thx
"Cos I'm a blonde...B-L-O-N-D
Cos I'm a blond, dont you wish you were me"
That one
+Fiona Beswick ok,looked it up on here it came back to me now duh for me thx. Ignore the other post I made...
Been looking for this. Thank you!!!
have you got a english subtitles ?
That was our Onslow starting at 11:45
Yup!
Eddie Yates!
Cool
Also the voice of Paul in Yellow Submarine.
YoU commented on "Onslow" in another film too..Revenge with joan colllins. So what??He was an actor you know. he had many bit parts in those days..He was also in an episode of Randall and hopkirk if you want to lok that up. BIg deal!!!
Dude in the too much shop looled like willy wonka.
Who is Grandpa Joe then? Or Mike Teavee? Or Augustus Gloop?
I realize it's a comedy, but seriously, with "friends" like Yvonne, Brenda was in for nothing but problems from the start.
Where were the boutique located on Kings Road Located?How many blocks were there fashion shops?
one of my all time favourite films, always brings a smile to my face with Lynn Redgrave and Rita Tushingham giving razor sharp performances and making it look effortless. this film it not pretending anything that it is not, it is just a light, undemanding piece of entertainment, with a brilliant look at London, (and prices) of the 1960's also exposes a lot of the 60's hype for what it was, a lot of codswallop.
It's actually a carefully-written, focused piece of satire that repays study of the background and repeated viewing.
Lynn Redgrave looks like a giant compared to Rita.
Thanks for sharing this film. As a child of the 60's this brings back a lot of memories and it was quite funny to boot!
i ran away to london when i was 15 i lied about my age and got a job in carnaby street
Rita ~ "Oh, me knickers are all nasty and clammy!" "That'll be me someday soon." ~ Lynn. Wish they made more of this codswallop nowadays xD
Did anyone notice the cameos of Rita Tushingham's "A Taste of Honey" co-stars Murray Melvin (Geoffrey) and Paul Danquah (Jimmy) who appeared in "Smashing Time" as the two effeminate men who entered the dress shop? I thought that was a nice touch!
I noticed too, but it didn't take much "acting" for Murray because he IS very gay.
This is the stupidest movie ever made,
The most peculiar film I’ve ever seen. When it finished I just thought,,,,,,what the hell did I just watch. It is fabulously camp fun and you play spot the actors familiar faces from other films and T. V shows. So many of them,
Gawd that was pathetic. Did people actually think that was funny in those days? Puerile....still it was good to see London as I remember it in the sixties.
Rita TushIngham couldn't look any more "English" if she tried. She had the typical English look in every way! It's great!
Satirising '67 back in '67. Smart.
The footage of London at start looks post war still - but without it's air's and grace. It was affordable and livable.
Stiffd1 St. Pancras Station façade is thick with soot and grime.
affordable living if you didn't mind living in a slum ... still nothing's changed ..
Im expecting any minute austin powers yer baby grooovy
*BRITISH MOVIES ARE MOST ASSUREDLY MY CUP O TEA!*
Bloody Colonials..!!
I spy Onslow...
I had a Smashing good Time watching this bubbling-over the top film. I'm a great fan of both Rita Tushingiham and Lyn Redgrave. They both do great in dramatic roles, as well. Thank you for the upload; somehow, missed seeing it in '67. Diana, Chicago, Illinois USA.
Sorry but it's dreadful.
Here in Brazil, the film was named As Psychedelics, I watched it a lot in the afternoon when I was a child in the 80s. Michael York's performance is excellent...
Thank you so much for this one, haven't seen it for yonks. Lived in London at the time, but a bedsit in Bayswater wasn't exactly having a smashing time, still it had its points, and a movie like this was one of them. Cheers
Steve Howe & other members of the group Tomorrow in the cream pie fight...excellent!
I'm glad you said that I thought I was seeing things,
When London was london.
Ali Pa k l
Yes, now its Little Asia.
It's still London, ffs.. 🙄
@@Hevva67 You clearly don't remember what it was once like. It's a toilet now.
It’s now a shithole
Great Time Capsule of London
That was the sixties that was.....!
(Americans: you will need to find a Brit of 60+ to explain this to you).
It says St Pancras. The first time I went to London, I asked a policewoman how to get to St Pancreas. She burst out laughing.
One of the weirdest films I've ever seen...cracking stuff...
Charlotte Brillig, aka the Baroness in Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang
Before absent foreign owners/landlords of properties came into being.
its called KARMA. The result of ignoring the ongoing atrocities of colonialism required to maintain our living standard and 2 decades of voting for mass murdering war criminals.
Stand for nothing and you will fall for anything......like blaming foreigners for condition we are entirely responsible for.
? Just what was the date on Rachmanism ?
LOL, BRILLIANT!!! I love old.fashioned slapstick comedy, and the performances are "smashing"!
"I Can't Sing But I'm Young" is by far the best song in the whole film, ironically, because all the other songs are supposed to be taken seriously, while it's a parody.
Yes I really enjoyed that song. Better than any tripe in the charts now
People think this is funny ???... I've seen funnier funerals... Just how many slapstick routines with squirting sauce and thrown cream-pies combined with gay stereotypes can you take ??...Sadly, Steve Howe is involved in this debacle.
What a drama Queen.
david stickland What.... You've watched this and found some merit have you ?? Probably think On The Buses was a shit hot comedy full of style too... Calling me a drama queen just because I think this interminable garbage is devoid of any real comedic genius is a bit rich.... Withnail & I this aint so fuck off
EnosEverything What a drama Queen indeed.
Whatever Mr. Drama Queen.
Are you saying that people who commit acts of gross indecency are never effeminate?.
Yvonne wasn't a real friend she was too superficial and self absorbed for that!
That's what I'm saying-didn't even apologize at the end. :P
Love Irene Handl
Very enjoyable film and good it was filmed in colour. From 13:00 in the cafe scene I love the various facial expressions of Rita Tushingham. A superb actress.
It's so bad it's brilliant. But it's good fun playing spot the star.
A really good film. Thanks for uploading. The slapstick is a bit annoying but otherwise it's a really good satire on the daftness of the 1960s - and the values of that decade are very much still with us.
Great fan of Rita T. I she is very pretty in this film
Wonderful snapshot of London when it was still part of England
London has always been different from England - its London - but it was and still is part of England.
Liz Clegg No, it's always been where the English were most English, once upon a time.
UKIP voters?
Hevva67 Hope So
We're taking you over :-) PAX London!
Very enjoyable film, great fun and fantastic to see London in those amazing days.
Tomorrow have grown to become one of my favorite groups from that time and their appearance in this film is the only other bit of footage of them I can find other than the promo for “My White Bicycle”.
So great to see London in the 60s. I never saw this then.
These two were such a perfect pair of best gal-pals, circa 60s, British style. I was just a kid and where I was growing up in the U.S., I didn't have much exposure to these when they were first released, but thankfully I'm making up for lost time now. RIP Lynn Redgrave: you were SMASHING. And Rita Tushingham was just adorable.
Just as I'm thinking, "Why am I still watching this bizarre movie?" the song "I'm So Young" comes on (at 1:14:15) and makes me LOL. Priceless!
A very amusing and entertaining film, haven't laughed so much for ages.
I was 14 in 1967 & went to see this with a mate at the ABC Croydon, pretending we were 16 (it was "A" certificate).
This was the most delightful & amazing film I've ever seen about sixties youth culture. ADORE!!
A gem of a film, Rita Tushingham is gorgeous!
Love the clothes
how poor old UK has changed
I love this film ...thanks for posting it
Forgotten how basic everything was in those days. I am now 74 and locked up in my own home for months wishing I could go back to those days. Girls were lovely then, always giggling !
The film is cool, has a plot that serves the current times and is worth seeing. It shows how success can go to one's head and provoke rivalries and that both the pop and fashion industries are ephemeral and their interpreters are just disposable products.
Nice to see Toni Palmer, she once stayed with us in Manchester when she was on at the Royal Exchange. Taught us lads how to cook, and no attitude to her at all, a lovely lady.
Thanks for posting this! Haven't seen it in years. Can't believe how many of the songs I remembered!
Too painful to watch after what's happened to London & the world in 2021.
The Great Reset RESIST
Talk about a toxic friendship and senseless movie!
Pretty much predicting the state of things to come in the 21st century.
A very silly film, but really enjoyed seeing London as it was in the 1960s, and the satirisation/portrayal of the whole "London scene" at the time. In fact, the whole celebrity culture, hip restaurant thing hasn't really changed.
Quite silly, I agree, Liz, but totally enjoyable.
actuslly, its a friendship film really. Who's the one who sticks by you through thick and thin (and naive young girls really do need a gal who will stick by them when the chips are down). I remember rescuing my slightly older sister from a nasty situation in a hotel, wasn't so funny for me as a fourteen year old...
Fabulous Surrealist touches from The Great, and much missed, George Melly. Ah just spotted Murray Helvin. Is that Bruce Lacey with his Machines in the Gallery Scene? Love the Psychedelic Condiments (There's Quite a bit of Sploshing in this Jolly Jape) Fight in the Greasy Caff!
bless you, ive wanted to see this again for so long!!!!!
whacky and wonderul,two great actresses,ive seen it dozens of times,pure fun
remember watching this on TV in the 70s. Great slice of swinging London even tho it's proper daft.
my late wife and I had been married one year in 1967
Sad that there's been nothing in Carnaby Street for years only normal boring shops that are everywhere
SATRICAL MUSICAL....?????????.....JUST MY OPINION..???
Thanks for sharing it! This is the first time I watch it in colour since 1980 when was broadcasted on State Italian Television Rai
A really funny movie from beginning to end never laughed so much in all my life thanks for sharing this gem 😂👍💕🥰 .
I've always loved all things British..& esp love their brand of humor. Just love the stars in this one, too. Thx 4 providing it here 🙂🙂❤❤
All these years later and I still LOVE the theme song to this fun film! I well remember the first time I traveled to London. All the way there I was singing this song, and the guy I was staying with-who was born and raised in London-had never heard this song and looked quite confused, LOL!
love this film...Watched it in the early 70's.My daughter's love it too.
Fantastic watched as a young girl and still as enjoyable now. innocent fun
Mostly filmed in the part of North London (NW3, NW5 esp.) that I grew up in.
I was 6 in 1967 and it's a spooky vibe seeing those locations.
Hugh Stevenson It's wonderful that you have your neighborhood as it was, saved on film. I'd love to have my own!
I'm sure greedy real estate developers have changed it, like most of London, out of all recognition for those aged 50 and up.
That's Camden Town & Kentish Town.
Lismore Road?
@@heli-crewhgs5285 Are far as an Irish man can walk from the station carrying his suitcases
Ollie Reed said Rita could convey everything that needed to be said with just her eyes alone.
Have always loved this film. Had the 60s banged to rights even when they were still happening. The "old fashioned" dress that Rita Tushingham gets to wear while she is working in the Too Much boutique is really quite an uncanny anticipation of what was just round the corner for mainstream fashion in 1971-2. The earliest appearance of anything similar on film that I can thing of is Anneke WIlls in Strange Report (1968) . She wore some of her own clothes. was friends with Ozzy Clarke, and is often clearly wearing very fashion forward gear. The waist is wrong, it needs to have a more Empire line, otherwise pretty good!
Absoloutely love Irene Handl
wot was they on when they filmed this
Loved watching this movie. My favourite though is A Taste of Honey. I actually met Rita T walking in Mayfair about 25 or more years ago. I spotted her and followed her 😂 just so I could tell her how amazing I think she is and that a TOH is my fav film. She was so nice to me. She was going into a house, I think that is where she lived. It made my day to see her.
... 7:36 ... my auntie phyllis always says " a minute on the lips a lifetime on the hips " ... but it is a good breakfast now the girls can graze [ eat very lightly ] until bedtime ...
🇬🇧 I worked in 5th Avenue, Regent St, and
D H Evans in Oxford Street as a window dresser in 1968. I loved Biba.
Onslow, Irenie Handle . Who played the 'posh' chap in the bubble bathroom scene ? Can't think of his name. Did he play Bertie Worcester ?
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Ps. I didn’t think much of the film .
Ps. I didn’t go to any 'funny' parties, or take any strange substances .
Pps. I did have a dance with Shaw Taylor at ITV studios though.
FANTASTIC! I dig this. Never heard of it before. Loved it
I think it's a very interesting film to watch because the age and see Tomorrow, unfortunately doesn't have english subtitles, I can't understand anything :(
"Wiv or wivart the bread n scrape?" 🤣🤣
Yvonne makes me think of Lulu
Yup. That's what I thought too!
Very odd film but I can’t seem to stop watching it
I was born in 1960
Irene handl was a great comic, and was always doing cockney ladies, but in reality she was as posh as come. If you hear her real voice.
Swear that was Onslow.
What a young fellow
he was here .
Pleasse say it was him.
Will watch this
crazy movie for his sake alone.
All the best from Vancouver B.C.
It was Onslow. There's no mistaking that face.
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Thank you !!!
Now I'll watch it again.
Yes, that is the late Geoffrey Hughes who played Onslow. The same year as this film (1967), Geoffrey was the voice of Paul McCartney in the animated film, Yellow Submarine.
Rita Tushingham showing what a great comedy actress she was too. Oh, and she was gorgeous!
You must need your eyes testing.
@@DDandrums Ever heard of "different strokes for different folks"?
@@DDandrums I think she's quite nice looking too. That's two of us off to spec savers, lol.
'Too Much' was based on an actual shop called 'Biba' in Kensington, London. Biba's meteoric success is a delicious, though ultimately tragic, story of 60s - 70s fashion retail.
Anyone know what the music is played in the "Too Much" boutique?
eadwig2000 All of the songs featured were written by John Addison especially for the film. No copyright issues that way.
A time when London belonged to the British.
I heard that over 1,000,000 Hippies used to visit Carnaby Street Daily.
Check out England's Finest PsychedelicBand 'Tomorrow' (around the 1.00 mark). Its them in the pie fight. They play 'The Sharks' but don't actually perform mores the pity!
Not my cup of tea (forgive the pun) but enjoyed seeing London as it was without Muslims.