All neat in black stockings
| Movie | |
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| Original title | All neat in black stockings |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christopher Morahan |
| script |
Jane Gaskell Hugh Whitmore |
| production | Leon Clore |
| music | Robert Cornford |
| camera | Larry Pizer |
| cut | Misha Norland |
| occupation | |
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All Neat in Black Stockings is a 1968 British comedy directed by Christopher Morahan in Swinging London during the Swinging Sixties . The protagonists are Victor Henry , Susan George and Jack Shepherd . The script is based on Jane Gaskell's novel "All Neat in Black Stockings", which the author co-authored with Hugh Whitmore for the film. The score was composed by Robert Cornford , the title track was sung by Jon Mark and released as a single in 1969 .
action
Ginger, around 20 years old, works as a self-employed window cleaner in London. He's a die-hard philanderer who swaps and shares his bed mates with his best friend, Dwyer. Already at the first rendezvous with the newly conquered nurse Babette, Ginger flirts with Jill because her black stockings caught his eye. After he bought Jill and her friend Carole a drink, they leave the pub while he dances with Babette .
When Ginger happened to meet Jill's less attractive friend Carole in the following days, he made an appointment with her, only to get in touch with Jill through Carole. When he succeeds in this, he deliberately takes his time with the seduction, unlike usual, because he thinks Jill is special. He is even surprisingly loyal to Jill, although he receives a clear invitation from a straw widow while he is cleaning windows.
Old Gunge, who is being treated as an inpatient because of an ailment in the hospital whose windows Ginger cleans, among other things, entrusts Ginger with his house key so that he can look around the house and the numerous pets (fish, rabbits, mice, birds, etc.) a little .) take care. However, Ginger quartered his heavily pregnant sister, Sis, her husband, Issur, and his lover, Jocasta, in Gunge's house.
When Ginger wants to use Gunge's house as a place to sleep with Jill (who he made drunk) for the first time, he bursts into a wild party hosted by Issur. He wants to end the party and remove the unwanted guests rioting in the house, which is why he asks Dwyer, who is also present, to take care of Jill, which he misunderstands to mean that he should seduce her with Ginger's consent, what happens and Dwyer and Jill remorseful.
When Gunge returned from his hospital stay earlier than expected, he found his house and its inventory devastated by the party, but allowed Ginger's sister Sis, who was abandoned by her husband because of his lover, to remain as housekeeper.
Jill is less fortunate when she informs Ginger after a separation of several weeks that she is pregnant by Dwyer. Ginger, who feels complicit in her other circumstances, marries her and looks for an apartment together, but Jill wants them to share the same household with her widowed mother. While Jill is in the hospital for her confinement, Ginger comes home drunk, where he ends up in the bed of his sexually starved mother-in-law, which puts a strain on his relationship with Jill, whom he openly accuses for the first time of having her child with Dwyer.
The final scene shows Ginger flirting with a waitress while he is visiting a restaurant for lunch, whose black stockings attract his attention.
background
Theatrical release
The film opened in April 1969 in London and on September 17, 1969 in New York .
The two main actors, Victor Henry and Susan George , were already featured in Michael Reevess' film Im Banne des Dr. Monserrat (The Sorcerers) performed together. Victor Henry's career came to an end a little later when he fell victim to an accident in a coma for years , from which he would not wake up until his death in 1985.
Film music
The jazzy film music was composed by Robert Cornford with solo passages for the British jazz musician Tony Coe and the Canadian jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player Kenny Wheeler . In the title track, Robert Cornford set a text by Terry Delaney, which was sung by folk rock musician Jon Mark and released as a single in 1969 .
publication
A restored version of All Neat in Black Stockings was released in January 2014 by Network Distributing Ltd.
Web links
- All Neat in Black Stockings in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- British Film Institute Film & TV Database: All Neat in Black Stockings.
- AH Weiler : All Neat in Black Stockings (1969) . Screen: British Bundle: 'Neat in Black Stockings' at 3 Theaters Here. New York Times . September 18, 1969.
- Drewe Shimon's detailed review of All Neat in Black Stockings (1968).
- Paul Lewis' detailed review of All Neat in Black Stockings.
- Robert Cornford's homepage offers the following MP3 audio samples of the score for All Neat In Black Stockings. Tape 105 : contains instrumentals (solo Tony Coe and Kenny Wheeler ). Tape 5302 , contains the title song of the film sung by Jon Mark and the song "Run To Me" (Philips UK BF 1772, April 1969) not used in the film.
Individual evidence
- ^ American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films. 1961-1970. P. 19.
- ↑ Jon Mark: All Neat In Black Stockings / Run To Me
- ^ All Neat in Black Stockings. ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ All Neat in Black Stockings: Out on DVD 01/27/2014.