O Lucky Man! (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Lindsay Anderson
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Actor: Malcolm McDowellDirector: Lindsay Anderson
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 183 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of O Lucky Man! (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: sprawling drama, muddled message, great music
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this movie when it first came out in 1973 and was anxious to see if my memories of this sprawling, would-be classic were accurate. I recalled it as being a kind of political road-trip through the Britain of that time with Malcolm McDowell playing a modern Candide.
McDowell plays Mick Travis, who armed with a charming smile, tries to claw his way to success. Travis is up for anything. He starts as a salesman, volunteers for a weird medical experiment, is arrested as a spy, becomes secretary to a sinister industrialist, goes to jail and ends up a movie star. Nothing seems to dent his gee-whiz optimism.
The classic British cast features amazing actors like Ralph Richardson and Arthur Lowe and the young and amazingly beautiful Helen Mirren among others. I should say here that the best thing about this movie is the amazing music by Alan Price whose tuneful, insightful and witty songs both hold things together, provide commentary on the action and stand up incredibly well more than 35 years later.
There are also moments that seem to reverberate more now than they did at the time, for example the wacky scientist making bold predictions some of which have come true. But the left-wing political message is obvious and heavy-handed.
Bottom line, this three-hour story is always interesting but the message never quite comes together and it ends up being somehow less than the sum of its parts.
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/23/2007 Run time: 178 minutesArt House & International DVD Video
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