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8.2/10   80 votes
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Director:
Alvin Rakoff
Writers:
John Mortimer (play)
John Mortimer (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
19 April 1984 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Awards:
4 wins & 5 nominations more
User Comments:
What a Wonderful Elegy He Made for Himself more

Cast

  (in credits order)

Laurence Olivier ... Clifford Mortimer

Alan Bates ... John Mortimer
Jane Asher ... Elizabeth
Elizabeth Sellars ... Mother
Michael Aldridge ... Headmaster

Alan Cox ... Son as a Boy
Norman Bird ... Ham
Albert Welling ... Japhet
James Downer ... Reigate
Susan Littler ... Miss Cox
Gay Wilde ... Miss Baker
Anthony Sharp ... Film Director
Ann Davies ... A.T.S. Girl
Judy Riley ... A.T.S. Girl
Jonathan Newth ... Boustead
Malcolm Terris ... Thong
Jennie Goossens ... Witmers
Harold Goodwin ... Ringer Lean
Patrick Barr ... Doctor
Esmond Knight ... Judge
Raymond Huntley ... Judge
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Sean Maguire
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Directed by
Alvin Rakoff 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
John Mortimer  play
John Mortimer  screenplay

Produced by
John Frankau .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Marc Wilkinson 
 
Cinematography by
Tony Pierce-Roberts 
 
Film Editing by
Oscar Webb 
 
Casting by
Elizabeth Sadler 
 
Production Design by
David Marshall 
 
Costume Design by
Louise Walker 
 
Makeup Department
Carol Green .... makeup artist
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou .... make-up/hair artist
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Adrian Rawle .... second assistant director
Gary White .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Freddie Slade .... dubbing mixer
Dennis Whitlock .... sound recordist
 
Other crew
Shirley Cleghorn .... stage manager
Michael Harvey .... location supervisor
Janet Mullins .... production assistant
 

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Additional Details

Runtime:
Brazil:90 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
UK:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The house in which the family live is the house in which author John Mortimer and his parents lived, and which the author lives today. The gardening hat that Laurence Olivier wears belonged to John Mortimer's father. more
Quotes:
Clifford Mortimer: [From bedroom] My tie! Oh God, where's my tie? If only you knew the loneliness of getting dressed! more
Movie Connections:
Version of A Voyage Round My Father (1969) (TV) more

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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
What a Wonderful Elegy He Made for Himself, 5 May 2000

Sir Laurence Olivier, the magnificent!! What a sweet comedy and the line to best ALL lines: "I ALWAYS get angry when I'm dying!" and he does. This was his swan song a few years before he died.

And how great it was to see two Anthonies play opposite on another, Alan Bates and Laurence Olivier. Father and son, it was so wonderfully sweet and funny. Of course, the beautiful English countryside wasn't half-bad either.

I love observing the native habits of the English. They are so funny and so well educated...at least they were back in those times before the fall of the Empire. To watch all the goings-on in the courtroom was well worth the price of the movie. U.S. courtroom behavior is so much more cut and dried with none of the unmeant and deliberate humor that was injected in this movie.

See this one, and understand that it can well be a primer for dying the good death.

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