Just saw the film last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. One question though: Is it just me or is Britt Ekland not in the movie more than a few scant minutes, as the woman seen most of the time is "Glenda"?
shareJust a few minutes; in the opening scene and then in the (in)famous phone sex scene.
But Glenda doesn't last that long before she's done away with!
Women just aren't treated gently in this film! The landlady is about the only one getting a measure of pleasure out of it.
That's what I thought. Thanks for the quick reply.
shareYup!
One of my favourite scenes is in the pub with the female singer taking a fancy to a bloke in the crowd. She strokes his face and his bird jumps up and they're rolling on the floor clawing at each other's faces and hair (typically female, that!). Strangely that's not in the remake.
Yeah I was very suprised how little Britt Ekland was in this movie. She was the fourth name in the credits but had the least amount of screen time out of all the females in the movie. Shame because I always found her to be one hottess British women ever.
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Caine and Ekland never actually met on the film. They did their parts apart!
shareBut weren't they in the same room and watching porn films with the other gangsters at the beginning of the film?
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That's right, but they're never in the same shot.
shareTrue and so it's possible they never did meet then.
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Caine said it was the first example of phone sex on film and he had the "reply lines" fed by a burly bloke!
shareThere was more with Britt Ekland, but it was cut. There was a mention that her face would be slashed and this was part of the movie, but the director didn't feel it fit in with the rest of the movie. Britt, apparently, was pissed that this was cut from the final movie.
shareI think that the coolest part of the phone sex scene is that while it's going on, the focus is on the landlady who is rocking her chair back and forth -- clearly, she's getting in on the action as well.
shareThere definitely needs to be a director's cut and deleted scenes edition in one DVD and BD.
shareThey are actually in the same shot (around 1 minute into the film), together with the two Fletcher brothers, so they definitely met.
shareBritt Ekland's swedish, though. Not british. Naturally. :)
share one of the BIG disappointments in this film.
it's almost borders on false advertising!