Gangsters, gangsters

Gangsters, gangsters ( Time gangsters ) is a British film of Terry Gilliam, left in 1981

Synopsis

Kevin is a young alive boy in a near future, with parents of a disturbing materialism. Soon he discovers with fear that its cupboard is the end of a space-time tunnel, when one night a rider the cross-piece violently. The following night it will be found vis-a-vis dwarves in escape. They have just concealed the Chart of the Temporal Doors to their Master, the Supreme Being, to become the most powerful plunderers of the Universe. Whereas they push back a wall of the room in the search of a temporal exit, the Supreme Being emerges, alarming Kevin which following the dwarves crosses the Door and is transported in the past.

Kevin is found then involved in their burlesques adventures which of time in time will lead them to face the Evil, coveting the chart to be released from the Fortress of Darkness where the Supreme Being holds it captive.

Comments

The Monty Python appear almost complete, and are joined in particular by Sean Connery and George Harrison which signs the credits and produces film. The Monty Python spirit is thus very present, and this film will not be able to convince its detractors.

For whoever the shifted humor of the group tastes, awkwardnesses of Terry Gilliam still beginning (plane and assemblies not very required) are erased by its exubérance, which in return gives to film a very disordered aspect. It is partly this merry disorder which makes the charm of this tale, while letting show through a rich scenario (varied times and places, each meeting with a legendary hero is very different from the others), progressive (late introduction of the Evil) without being linear (rebellion of the dwarves…) and full with marvellous (dwarves, legends, fight of the Good against the Evil), connecting the gags not always schoolkids (flight of the Greeks…) : one has a presentiment of already future films of Terry Gilliam, which shows a beautiful imagination in the resumption of the most known legends (Napoleon and Robin of parodied Wood, the Ogre as presented in the tales, and very human Agammemnon…).

The inequality of the unit prevents it from being worship, but the epilog initially désopilant and with the many references (until Saturnin, which one had been able to believe unknown to the British!), then almost serious through the questions which it raises, delights the spectators sensitive to humor Monty Pythonesque.

Data sheet

Title: Gangsters Gangsters
original Title: Time Gangsters
Realization: Terry Gilliam
Scenario: Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin
Lasted: 116 minutes
Director of the photography: Peter Biziou
Music: George Harrison

Distribution

Craig Warnock : Kevin
Sean Connery: king Agamemnon, the fireman
John Cleese: Robin of Wood
David Warner: genius of the evil
Shelley Duval: Pansy
Michael Palin: Vincent
Ian Holm: Napoleon
Ralph Richardson: the supreme Being
Peter Vaughan: the ogre Winston
Katherine Helmond: the woman of the ogre
David Rappaport: Randall
Kenny Baker (actor): Fidgit
Malcolm Dixon : Strutter
Mike Edmonds: Og
Jack Purvis: Wally
Tiny Ross : Vermin
David Daker: Trevor, the father of Kevin
Sheila Fearn: Diane, the mother of Kevin
Jim Broadbent: Kenny Lange, accomplice
John Young: Reginald
Myrtle Devenish : Beryl
Leon Lyssek: First taken refuge
Terence Bayler: Lucien
Preston Lockwood: Neguy
Charles McKeown: Directing of the theater
David Leland: Maronnettiste
John Hughman: large Rumbozo
Derrick O' Connor: Chief of the robbers
Neil McCarthy: Second robber
Declan Mulholland: Third robber
Peter Jonfield: Fighter with arm-of-iron
Derek Deadman: Robert
Jerold Wells: Benson
Roger Frost: Cartwright
Martin Carroll: Baxi Brazilia III
Marcus Powell: Horseflesh
Winston Refusals: Warlike with the head of bull
Del Baker: Warlike Greek
Juliette James: Clytemnestre
Ian Muir : Giant
Mark Holmes: Father troll
Andrew MacLachlan: Fireman
Chris Grant: Voice of the presenter tele
Tony Jay: Voice To be it supreme
Fine Edwin: Face To be it supreme
Brian Bowes: Hussar
Frances of the Tower: Ordering Salvation Army

See too

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