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Tommy is a 1975 British musical fantasy drama film written and directed by Ken Russell and based on the Who's 1969 rock opera album Tommy about a "psychosomatically deaf, mute, and blind" boy who becomes a pinball champion and religious leader.
Mar 26, 1975 · Tommy: Directed by Ken Russell. With Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Elton John. A psychosomatically blind, deaf, and mute boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.
- (23K)
- Drama, Musical
- Ken Russell
- 1975-03-26
Pete Townshend, who wrote the original album for The Who, says Tommy is an attack on the hypocrisy of organized religion. Ken Russell, who's made a specialty of films about musicians (Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Liszt), says Tommy is the greatest work of art the twentieth century has produced.
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Nora Walker is told that her British bomber pilot husband is missing in action and presumed killed in World War II. On V.E. Day, Nora gives birth to their son and names him Tommy.
Tommy (1975) Directed by Ken Russell. Young Tommy, traumatized by witnessing his stepfather’s murder of his father, is struck deaf, dumb, and blind, becomes a pinball champion, miraculously recovers his senses, and is followed as a messiah by the masses.
After seeing his stepfather murder his father during an argument over his mother, young Tommy goes into shock, suddenly becoming psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind.
- (35)
- Musical
- PG
