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The Magic Christian is a 1969 British satirical farce black comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with appearances by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski. It was loosely adapted from the 1959 comic novel The Magic Christian by the American author Terry Southern, who co ...
Jan 21, 2003 · The Magic Christian is Peter Sellers at his best with so many voices and personas while Ringo Starr is so much fun to watch. Also included are severals songs by the group Badfinger while one of the numbers is written by The Beatles and a stiring Thunderclap Newman Something in the Air towards the end of the film.
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This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his Hamlet soliloquy with a striptease.
The Magic Christian is a 1969 film based on Terry Southern's 1959 book of the same name, starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Caroline Blakiston, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Guest Stars Richard Attenborough, Laurence Harvey, Leonard Frey, Christopher Lee, Spike Milligan, Roman Polański, and Raquel Welch.
2 years later, nervous "Magic Christian" producers wanted to avoid another calamity, and allowed Sellers to tinker with the screenplay and take over direction. In 2 sequences, Sellers acts with his back to the camera. "The Magic Christian" is a curious mish-mash of adroit British humor, shaky hand-held photography, and cut-and-paste story-telling.
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Oct 8, 2007 · The trailer to the 1969 film starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, "The Magic Christian."
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Jul 24, 2012 · The Magic Christian (Joseph McGrath, 1969) by RdL. Topics The Magic Christian. The Magic Christian Addeddate 2012-07-24 06:21:23 Ia_orig__runtime 92 minutes 12 ...
