Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ( Morgan! )

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Morgan!
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1966 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Karel Reisz

Written By:
David Mercer

Actors:
David Warner ..... Morgan Delt
Vanessa Redgrave ..... Leonie Delt
Robert Stephens ..... Charles Napier
Irene Handl ..... Mrs. Delt
Bernard Bresslaw ..... Policeman
Arthur Mullard ..... Wally
Newton Blick ..... Mr. Henderson
Nan Munro ..... Mrs. Henderson
Peter Collingwood ..... Geoffrey
Graham Crowden ..... Counsel
John Garrie ..... Tipstatt
John Rae ..... Judge
Angus MacKay ..... Best Man
Marvis Edwards ..... Maid
Peter Cellier ..... Second Counsel

Synopsis:

Anarchic Londoner Morgan Delt, a working class artist and self-confessed dreamer with a gorilla-fixation tries to regain the affections of his upper-class ex-wife Leonie. Leonie rejects Morgan's attempts at reconciliation and when she informs him of her plans to marry stuffy art dealer, Charles Napier, Morgan slips off the mental deep end into a vivid fantasy life. Morgan enacts a series of bizarre gags and stunts in an often hilarious campaign to win Leonie back... Boasting a brilliant cast including Vanessa Redgrave (Howard's End, Blow Up), who earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role, and David Warner (Tron, The Omen), Morgan, A Suitable Case For Treatment is a 60s cult classic adapted from David Mercer's BBC Sunday night play and directed by Karel Reisz (The French Lieutenant's Woman, Saturday Night And Sunday Morning). Cut with dream sequences from King Kong and Tarzan films, Morgan's depiction of surreal madness and dark humour made it the swinging sixties wildest, funniest and most provocative comedy.

A classic 1960's cult film in the British "angry young man" tradition, the hero of this film from Czech director Karel Reisz is more lunatic than agitator. Morgan Delt (David Warner) is an artist from a working class background, married to Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave), a woman far above him in social standing. Given to a rich fantasy life to begin with, Morgan goes off the mental deep end when Leonie informs him that she's asking for a divorce and taking up with art dealer Robert Stephens (Charles Napier), a man more befitting her class. Thoroughly gone around the bend, Morgan enacts a series of bizarre gags and stunts in a campaign to win Leonie back, including putting a skeleton in her bed and crashing her wedding dressed as a gorilla. His antics eventually get Morgan arrested and committed to an asylum, where he embraces his mother's ardent communist beliefs. Redgrave was Oscar nominated for Best Actress for her role, her feature film debut.

Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 25 October, 2011.

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