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    Hammersmith Is Out (1972)

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    This contemporary view of the Faust legend was directed by Peter Ustinov, who also appears as a psychiatrist with a monstrous German accent. Richard Burton plays the devil who is locked in an asylum for the criminally insane, disguised as a lunatic called Hammersmith.

    With the help of slovenly, dimwitted, nose-picking redneck orderly Billy Breedlove (Beau Bridges) and illiterate platinum blonde diner waitress Jimmie Jean Jackson (Elizabeth Taylor) he escapes, spreads crime and pestilence, corrupts the world, starts wars, and litters the film with discarded corpses along the way.

    Onetime gangster star George Raft has a short part as the owner of a topless nightclub which Hammersmith helps Breedlove acquire, and Leon Ames – looking quite aged – plays a pompous American general who owes more to Colonel Blimp than to the Pentagon.

    Burton sleepwalks through the film as though in an advanced state of hypnosis, the writing is inept and the humour quickly palls. With a cast of this calibre, you would expect much much more.

    Jimmie Jean Jackson
    Elizabeth Taylor
    Hammersmith
    Richard Burton
    Doctor
    Peter Ustinov
    Billy Breedlove
    Beau Bridges
    General Sam Pembroke
    Leon Ames
    Dr Krodt
    Leon Askin
    Guido Scartucci
    George Raft
    Henry Joe
    John Schuck
    Princess
    Marjorie Eaton
    Kiddo
    Lisa Jak
    Miss Quim
    Linda Gaye Scott
    Fat Man
    Mel Berger
    Oldham
    Anthony Holland
    Pete Rutter
    Brook Williams
    Cleopatra
    Carl Don

    Director
    Peter Ustinov

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