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Wow, what a weird movie. 60's Roald Dahl

posted 9 years ago by CathodeRayTubesRock
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A weird combination. I just watched this movie with my daughter. We had fun watching it but it certainly takes several weird turns.
Somehow I had never seen this movie before (definitely old enough).
"Truly Scrumptious"! Lol, yes, she was but more to the dads in the audience.

When I saw Benny Hill I was wondering if the topless women were coming next.

All in all quite fun and entertaining. My daughter was thoroughly entertained throughout the long-ish movie.

Roald Dahl certainly had some mental issues. (What's up with the Baron trying to kill his wife?). But that's just part of his (Dahl's) strange charm I guess.

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[–] billhaldenby 9 years ago

i don't have this as fact, but I think the killing the baroness stuff comes from one of the directors, Ken Hughes instead of Roald Dahl. The baroness, Anna Quayle was in two other Ken Hughes movies both having beautiful woman killed for very little reason outside of maybe some erotic fantasy. Ken Hughes directed Arrivederci Baby two year before. In that movie, Tony Curtis would woo sexy beautiful women then kill them for their money after being even slightly annoyed by them. Anna Quayle was one of the victims. A year prior to CCBB he directed Casino Royale, many hot beautiful women killed including Anna Quayle as the director of a spy agency. The very odd one I found in CCBB was first, letting a fairly erotic scene (the baroness in corset and high skirt with stockings and garters) be included in a kids movie, and second, what ever did the baron hate about her? She seemed to love him, was there for him and her only flaw (hating kids) was also his flaw. You'd think they would have been perfect for each other, besides she wasn't exactly hard to look at!

[–] Blueghost 8 years ago

I think as adults we get a little leery of Benny Hill showing up in a children's film, but he was a slapstick comedian first and foremost, and also a well known British Actor whose name help sell the film.

The king and queen of Vulgaria were just immature evil people. They're stock villains. Though like I said in the other thread, I think it's kind of interesting that the wife actually liked her husband despite all of his faults.

But yeah, it is kind of a long and somewhat odd film, but I still like it as both an adult and a kid who saw it all those years ago 