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English. Budget. $3 million [3] Box office. $34.3 million [4] 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. [5]
- $34.3 million
- The Who
- $3 million
- Ken Russell, Robert Stigwood
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.
- (22K)
- Drama, Musical
- Ken Russell
- 1975-03-26
Captain Walker is lost in World War II and presumed dead; soon thereafter his wife Nora gives birth to their son Tommy. When he's about 10 years old, Nora marries scheming holiday-camp worker Frank Hobbs. When Nora and Frank are about the consummate their relationship, Captain Walker stops them and in the heat of passion, Frank kills Captain ...
May 5, 2023. Rated: 4/5 • Jun 1, 2022. Aug 4, 2020. After seeing his stepfather murder his father during an argument over his mother, young Tommy goes into shock, suddenly becoming ...
- (1.5K)
- Ken Russell
- PG
- Roger Daltrey
The movie's purpose and achievement would be hard to figure out on the basis of what its makers say about it. 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 ...
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Tommy (1975) -- (Movie Clip) A Film By Ken Russell Diretor Ken Russell’s prologue, one of the least remarked-upon scenes, shot partly in Borrowdale Valley, England’s far northwest Lake District, seen in other Russell films, with Robert Powell as doomed Captain Walker and Ann-Margret his wife, before the birth of the hero, in the famous adaptation of the rock opera by Pete Townshend and The ...
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