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Review: The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian is: antiestablishmentarian, antibellum, antitrust, antiseptic, antibiotic, antisocial & antipasto.

This 1969 Peter Sellers film is a zany madcap satire of greed. Sellers stars as Sir Guy Grand, eccentric and extremely wealthy, who believes that everyone has their price and sets out to prove that in a series of elaborate practical jokes. He brings with him on this adventure a vagrant (played by Ringo Starr) whom he adopts at the begnning of the movie and names Youngman Grand.

The most elaborate of Grand’s schemes involves the luxury liner the SS Magic Christian which features cameos of Christopher Lee as a vampiric ship’s porter, Yul Brynner as a transvestite cabaret singer and finally a wonderful engine room scene that reveals in fact that the ship is propelled by hordes of topless rowing slaves, under the Priestess of the Whip’s (Raquel Welch) command.

By Matt Wharton

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