10-14-2015, 08:18 PM
A skinny and wiry Roger Daltry is master of the vacant gaze; Oliver Reed excels in the drinking scenes and bellows out his songs (to be dubbed over later by an actual singer); Eric Clapton is woodenly robotic (or robotically wooden?); Elton John has no interest in the film, but agrees to do the part if he gets to keep the shoes; Robert Powell (who played Mahler in Ken Russell’s Mahler) plays the hapless father; Jack Nicholson camps it up as the Specialist...
...and Anne-Margret and Tina Turner just totally rule.
Wonderful wanton madness.
...and Anne-Margret and Tina Turner just totally rule.
Wonderful wanton madness.