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Leo the Last (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1970 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
John Boorman

Written By:
Bill Stair
John Boorman

Actors:
Alba ..... Bodyguard
Bernard Boston ..... Mr. Mardi
Billie Whitelaw ..... Margaret
Billy Russell ..... Bodyguard
Brinsley Forde ..... Black Preacher
Calvin Lockhart ..... Roscoe, the Pimp
David de Keyser ..... David
Doris Clark ..... Bip
Glenna Forster-Jones ..... Salambo Mardi
Graham Crowden ..... Max, the Lawyer
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies ..... Hilda
Ishaq Bux ..... Singing Lady
Keefe West
Kenneth J. Warren ..... Kowalski (as Kenneth Warren)
Louis Gossett Jr. ..... Roscoe (as Lew Gossett)
Lucita Lijertwood ..... Blonde Whore
Malcolm Redman ..... Mardi Child
Marcello Mastroianni ..... Prince Leo
Marcia Redman ..... Mrs. Kowalski
Patsy Smart ..... Jasper
Phyllis MacMahon ..... Black Whore
Princess Patience ..... Mardi Child
Ram John Holder ..... Mardi Child
Robert Kennedy ..... Wailing Lady
Robert Redman ..... Mrs. Mardi
Roy Stewart
Thomas Bucson ..... Supermarket Manager
Tina Solomon
Vladek Sheybal ..... Laszlo, Leo's Aide

Synopsis:

Prince Leo (Marcello Mastroianni) is the exiled ruler from an unnamed country living on the edge of a London ghetto with his harridan mistress Margaret (Billie Whitelaw). While viewing birds through his telescope, he witnesses the struggles of his black neighbors to survive their harsh urban environment. When Salambo (Glenna Forster Jones) is forced into prostitution by Jasper (Keefe West), the prince decides to take action. He rescues the woman after she is raped and makes her his ward and protectorate. When the royal guards invade the neighborhood, Leo and a makeshift troop of residents repel the advance with fireworks and homemade explosives. The film is based on the George Tabori play 'The Prince' and deals with class struggles of the poor against the haughty royals.

Prince Leo (Marcello Mastroianni), last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest. With him are social-climber Margaret (Billie Whitelaw), to whom he is engaged, and Laszlo (Vladek Sheybal), who is planning a counter revolution which will restore Leo to the kingship of the monarchy. Leo is shocked to discover the one exclusive neighborhood has degenerated into a ghetto inhabited mainly by poor blacks on the brink of desperation. His nearest neighbors are the Mardi family and their beautiful daughter, Salambo (Glenna Forster Jones), who catches his eye as does her boy friend the procurer Roscoe (Calvin Lockhart.) Using the excuse of watching birds he watches them closely through field glasses with the coolness and detachment of a scientist watching insects under a magnifying glass. When Salambo is forced to become a whore in order to keep her family together, Leo, despite the pleadings of Margaret and Laszlo who has just about finished the steps toward the restoration, does something of which he always though himself incapable.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 08 September, 2009.

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