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Hammersmith is Out. The spectacle of Elizabeth Taylor growing older and more beautiful continues to amaze the population. The other night at the Esquire Theater there were so many gasps and whispers about her costumes, her figure and various unprintable lines of her dialog, that she proved all over again that a few real movie stars still exist.
Hammersmith Is Out. An asylum doctor (Peter Ustinov) tracks a devilish inmate (Richard Burton) who schemes with a waitress (Elizabeth Taylor) and a male nurse.
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Synopsis. At an asylum for the criminally insane in Texas, inmate Hammersmith (Richard Burton) resides in a locked cell, studiously avoided by the staff, who fear his oddly powerful allure. When dimwitted Billy Breedlove (Beau Bridges) is hired as an orderly, however, he is seduced by Hammersmith's promise of wealth and strength and agrees to ...
Hammersmith is Out is one of the year's best comedies. It is also, while it's at it, one of the year's best satires, but it doesn't lay the satire on very heavily.
Hammersmith Is Out is a 1972 American comedy-drama film based on the legend of Faust. It is directed by Peter Ustinov, who stars in the film alongside Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Beau Bridges.
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape. Peter Ustinov. Director. Stanford Whitmore. Writer.
"Hammersmith Is Out" marked the ninth teaming of Taylor and Burton, although her romantic vis-à-vis in the film is actually Beau Bridges As a vehicle, it's on a par with Crawford wielding an ax or Davis sporting a fright wig Hammersmith is the Burtons on holiday; the slightly over-the-hill stars are making a home movie for their fans in which they good naturedly yet skillfully burlesque ...
