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The Boy Friend
Directed by
Ken Russell
PG
1971
2h 17m
Musical
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Comedy
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6.8
78%
70%
6.5
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When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.
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Cast of The Boy Friend
Twiggy
Polly
Christopher Gable
Tony
Max Adrian
Max
Bryan Pringle
Percy
Murray Melvin
Alphonse
Moyra Fraser
Mme. Dubonnet
Georgina Hale
Fay
Sally Bryant
Nancy
Vladek Sheybal
De Thrill
Tommy Tune
Tommy
Brian Murphy
Peter
Graham Armitage
Michael
Antonia Ellis
Maisie
Caryl Little
Dulcie
Anne Jameson
Mrs. Peter
Catherine Willmer
Catherine
Robert La'Bassiere
Chauffeur
Barbara Windsor
Hortense
Glenda Jackson
Rita Monroe
Imogen Claire
Dancer (uncredited)
The Boy Friend Ratings & Reviews
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
The original numbers are far more entertaining than the ones which merely borrow heavily from Busby Berkeley.
Midwest Film Journal
Nick Rogers
Ken Russell's claim to love musicals may well be true, but it's difficult to glean when the camera is often positioned as if the performers are facing a firing squad. At its best, it approximates Busby but it's mostly just busy.
Bay Area Reporter
Steve Warren
The last great MGMusical. Russell both parodies and pays homage to stage and screen musicals of the '20s through '40s, out-Busying Berkeley by showing what the movies' great dance director could have done with a wider screen.
LIFE
Richard Schickel
It is an acute, duplicitous, discomfiting movie whose message, finally, is that all times are tough for the people who must live through them, and glow golden only for those who survive them, or imagine them.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
THE BOY FRIEND is a sincere celebration of the musical from a camp point of view. And let it be said Russell discovered Tommy Tune many years before Broadway did.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
It's a delight, one of the high points of Russell's extravagantly uneven career.
Variety
Variety Staff
It is delightful entertainment, novel and engaging.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Steve Crum
More a lesson in style (Ken Russell) than anything memorable, even with Twiggy.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Ken Russell's film version of the popular stage musical is, as expected, extravagant and campy in style, but it has charm and fashion model Twiggy shows interesting screen presence.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Even when he's not deliberately doing Berkeley takeoffs, (Ken Russell's) camera is so joyless that it undermines every scene.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
One of the filmmaker's most captivating and stylish works -- and the only one of his films to ever receive a G rating.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Daniel M. Kimmel
for restored director's cut
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Shane Burridge
Delirious, hilarious, visually dazzling
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