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Hammersmith Is Out was the first film financed by John Crean, the founder of Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. a producer of recreational vehicles, travel trailers (including fold-down tent trailers) and manufactured housing. Crean told an interviewer that he ventured into the motion picture industry in search of excitement.
- Alex Lucas
- May 12, 1972 (United States)
- J. Cornelius Crean Films Inc.
- Dominic Frontiere
May 12, 1972 · Hammersmith Is Out: Directed by Peter Ustinov. With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Beau Bridges. The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor (Sir Peter Ustinov) of dubious sanity.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Peter Ustinov
- 1972-05-12
Rated: 0/5 • Sep 26, 2008. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. 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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- Peter Ustinov
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Hammersmith Is Out was financed by John Cornelius Crean, a millionaire mobile home manufacturer who also produced the 1972 film Man and Boy (see below). Although a March 1971 Daily Variety new item stated that Crean would distribute the film, in August 1972 Cinerama Releasing was announced in Daily Variety as the worldwide distributor.
- Peter Ustinov, Newton Arnold
- Elizabeth Taylor
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.
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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.
