Smashing Time (1967)
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100% of critics liked it
(6 reviews) -
67% of users liked it
(90 ratings)
Smashing Time attempts to turn British actresses Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave into a female Laurel and Hardy. The film's second mistake is to prolong the joke for 96 minutes. Tushingham and Redgrave play a couple of dimwitted North Country girls who head to London, in hopes of breaking into… More Smashing Time attempts to turn British actresses Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave into a female Laurel and Hardy. The film's second mistake is to prolong the joke for 96 minutes. Tushingham and Redgrave play a couple of dimwitted North Country girls who head to London, in hopes of breaking into the mad, mod world of fashion modeling. Instead they spend most of their screen time getting in each other's way and wreaking havoc on innocent pedestrians. The comic "highlight" of Smashing Time is supposed to be a mammoth pie fight; but outside of one cute throwaway gag involving a street minister, the sequence makes one wish, in the words of Laurel and Hardy buff Leonard Maltin, that Smashing Time "had been handled by someone other than [director] Desmond Davis." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Desmond Davis
- Written By
- George Melly
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 20, 1967 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Ed Gonzalez, Apollo Guide
But most of this the film is a delight, especially scenes revolving around Yvonne's continual abuse of Brenda.
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Cast
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Rita Tushingham
as Brenda
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Lynn Redgrave
as Yvonne
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Michael York
as Tom Wabe
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Anna Quayle
as Charlotte Brilling
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Irene Handl
as Mrs. Gimble
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Ian Carmichael
as Bobbi Mome-Rath
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Toni Palmer
as Toni
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Jeremy Lloyd
as Jeremy Tove
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Arthur Mullard
as Cafe Boss
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Sydney Bromley
as Tramp
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Murray Melvin
as 1st Exquisite
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Paul Danquah
as 2nd Exquisite
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Valerie Leon
as Tove's Secretary
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Jerold Wells
as Man in Cafe No. 6
- Yuri Borienko
- Veronica Carlson
- Golda Casimir
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John Clive
as Sweenie Todd Manager
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Howard Marion-Crawford
as Hall Porter
- Julian Curry
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Amy Dalby
as Demolished Old Lady
- Tom Gill
- Danny Green
- Geoffrey Hughes
- Brenda Kempner
- Sam Kydd
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Bruce Lacey
as Clive Sword
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David Lodge
as The Caretaker
- Arthur Lovegrove
- Vanessa Redgrave
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Cardew Robinson
as Custard-Pie Vicar
- Frank Sieman
- Will Stampe
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Ronnie Stevens
as 1st Waiter
- Michael Ward
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George A. Cooper
as Irishman
- Desmond Davis
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Peter Jones
as Dominic
- Kate Binchy
- Bart Allison
- Stuart Saunders
- Gabor Baraker
- Bernard Stone
- Susan Whitman
