Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 01/21/2003
Dubbed: English
Sound: DS
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: Republic Pictures
This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (
Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (
Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his Hamlet soliloquy with a striptease. A vile cesspool of excrement is seeded with cash and the money-hungry dive right in.
Wilfred Hyde White is the drunken captain,
Yul Brynner is uncredited in his performance as a chanteuse transvestite, and
John Cleese is the director of Sotheby's auction house.
Roman Polanski,
Richard Attenborough and
Raquel Welch also appear in this offbeat comedy.
Paul McCartney wrote and produced "Come and Get It," the first international hit from the power-pop group
Badfinger.
John "Speedy" Keene wrote "Something In The Air" and performed the track with his group
Thunderclap Newman. Sellers, Cleese,
Graham Chapman and
Terry Southern co-authored the screenplay taken from
Southern's novel.
~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
