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    Fine Madness, A (1966)

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    Sean Connery plays an Irish poet with the highly improbable alliterative name of Samson Shillitoe. He is a two-fisted, hard-drinking, oft-wenching cross between Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan.

    The muse has left him, he is pursued by process servers, behind in his alimony payments and beset by women starved for you-know-what who attack him almost anywhere, even in a whirlpool bath.

    Interspersed amongst all this are some excellent bits of satire, including a hilarious women’s club meeting and some very good supporting characterisations. Joanne Woodward, in particular, plays a fine and uncharacteristic role as the poet’s wife.

    There are marvellous bit parts, such as Ayllene Gibbons as a man-eating clubwoman, Werner Peters as a prototype Freudian analyst and Clive Revill as the overeager lobotomist who uses his new technique of psychosurgery on Samson’s brain with disastrous results.

    All this is laced together with technical excellence, lively direction, deft editing, abundant sight gags and sophisticated dialogue and excellent photography.

    The result is a forgettable but enjoyable bit of nonsense.

    Samson Shillitoe
    Sean Connery
    Rhoda Shillitoe
    Joanne Woodward
    Lydia West
    Jean Seberg
    Dr Oliver West
    Patrick O’Neal
    Dr Vera Kropotkin
    Colleen Dewhurst
    Dr Menken
    Clive Revill
    Dr Freddie Vorbeck
    Werner Peters
    Daniel K. Papp
    John Fiedler
    Mrs Fish
    Kay Medford
    Mr Fitzgerald
    Jackie Coogan
    Evelyn Tupperman
    Zohra Lampert
    Leonard Tupperman
    Sorrell Booke
    Miss Walnicki
    Sue Ane Langdon
    Mrs Fitzgerald
    Bibi Osterwald

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