Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment


Starring:David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl, Bernard Bresslaw, John Rae (II), Jane Merrow, Marvis Edwards, Ilija Dzuvalekovski, Peter Cellier, Arthur Mullard, Nan Munro, Newton Blick, Angus MacKay, Robert Bridges, Peter Collingwood, Bekim Fehmiu, John Garrie, Graham Crowden
Director: Karel Reisz
Studio: Anchor Bay
Product Type: DVD
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Starring: David Warner , Vanessa Redgrave , Robert Stephens , Irene Handl , and Bernard Bresslaw
Director: Karel Reisz
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
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ASIN: B00005R244
Release Date: 2001-12-04

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment.......2007-06-28

Redgrave made her film debut in this wildly inventive black comedy by Czech director Reisz. Her magnetic performance as Leonie-continually torn between her more conventional side and the unhinged part of her nature - netted her a Best Actress Oscar nomination. "Morgan!"'s exuberant pacing and anarchic spirit make it one of the swinging sixties' most delightfully loony cult films. Also, Warner is terrific in the lead.

2 out of 5 stars Gorilla Theatre.......2004-10-30

This film may have seemed cutting edge at the time of it's release in 1966;now it just seems terribly dated. Essentially the story involves a neurotic Londoner (David Warner) with a fixation on amphibians and Marxist politics who is attempting to reconcile with his ex-wife(Vanessa Redgrave). As far as I'm concerned, Warner's character is so loony that you can see why his wife left him. We're supposed to find his antics endearing;I just found them incredibly annoying. Redgrave received an Oscar nomination for her efforts here and rightly so. She almost convinces us that she felt some affection and may still harbor a little for this offputting madman.

5 out of 5 stars Class Warfare on the Bedroom Front.......2004-02-07

Underneath the zany gorilla suit, the automotive hijinks and the wacky pratfalls, this is at heart a love story about a rich society girl who can't help loving a penniless artist from the wrong side of the tracks. I fell in love with this movie when it first came out, and revisiting it nearly 40 years later is like heaven. The black & white print here is flawless, and the fantasy scenes mixing Tarzan footage, period nature films and Morgan's reveries are clever beyond their time. Jazz legend Johnny Dankworth provides an unusual soundtrack of woodwinds in a very Guiffresque style which has worn the years well. The movie contains several of the most memorable scenes ever committed to film, and the artful blending of fantasy and reality leads to an ending which is completely open to interpretation.

The heart wants what the heart wants. This is a very life-positive movie.

5 out of 5 stars Morgan!.......2003-07-29

It's a super movie. Great acting, great directing, and a great story.

3 out of 5 stars Uneven to the point of madness.......2002-06-22

1. The individual comedy bits don't work . At some level, you gotta like the guy and be rooting for him for it to be funny -- but he's usually just an obnoxious party-crashing bore. Just cuz Vanessa's thinks he's cute doesn't mean we have to.

2. The music is an awful Mingus-variant on that "waah-waah oom-pah jazz" that telegraphs punchlines and tries to compell audience reaction like a laugh track. The same thing happened in Belushi's "Neighbors."

3. The motivation for characters seems to shift from scene to scene. Other than being physically attractive, what on earth ties these two together other than the director's orders. Okay, she sorta kinda wants to rebel, and he sorta kinda enjoys wiggin' out for her. Or it's the sex. Or it's .. okay .. whatever .. nevermind.

4. I get the sense that the "cliched-societal-and-class restraints of 1962" were a bit different from the "cliched-societal-and-class restraints of 1966" -- and that tiny time warp threw the production off a bit.

5. Warner's dialogue with his mother when she tucks him in is my favorite, and is the most genuine moment in the movie, and is completely out of place with everything else.

6. All that said -- I'lll bet there's a decent period piece of a movie to be re-made here.

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