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Release Date:
28 April 1989 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Story That Seduced The World Is Now The Most Controversial Film Of The Year. more
Plot:
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him...
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Plot Keywords:
Scandal
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Osteopath
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Profumo Scandal
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Historical
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Suicide
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 1 win
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1 nomination
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(5 articles)
The second outing of John Hurt
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The second outing of John Hurt
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(From The Guardian - TV News. 20 November 2009, 4:11 PM, PST)
The second outing of John Hurt
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Turgid but clever
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Hurt | ... | Stephen Ward |
 | Joanne Whalley | ... | Christine Keeler (as Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) |
 | Bridget Fonda | ... | Mandy Rice-Davies |
 | Ian McKellen | ... | John Profumo |
 | Leslie Phillips | ... | Lord Astor (Bill) |
 | Britt Ekland | ... | Mariella Novotny |
| Daniel Massey | ... | Mervyn Griffith-Jones |
| Roland Gift | ... | Johnnie Edgecombe |
| Jean Alexander | ... | Mrs. Keeler |
| Alex Norton | ... | Detective Inspector |
| Ronald Fraser | ... | Justice Marshall |
| Paul Brooke | ... | John, Detective Sgt. |
| Jeroen Krabbé | ... | Eugene Ivanov (as Jeroen Krabbe) |
| Keith Allen | ... | Kevin, Reporter Sunday Pictorial |
 | Ralph Brown | ... | Paul Mann |
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Rated R for strong sexuality, and for language.
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Runtime:
115 min | USA:106 min | Canada:111 min
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Color (Fujicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:PA (Manitoba) |
Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
Iceland:16 |
South Korea:18 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:R |
UK:18
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Many UK actors are said to have refused roles in this movie because of the subject could cost them knighthoods and the other honors.
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Factual errors: A title card says, "One Year Later, 1962," indicating Profumo addressed Parliament re Keeler that year. But, Profumo's address was actually in March 1963.
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Quotes:
John Profumo:
I have nothing to hide.
Stephen Ward: Come off it John, we all have something to hide, what a boring life it would be if we didn't.
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Stephen Ward: Come off it John, we all have something to hide, what a boring life it would be if we didn't.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Empire of the Censors (1995) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Nothing Has Been Proved
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This is one of the better contemporary fictionalizations of historical events, though it suffers from lack of exposition. Here's the history that you need to follow events: John Profumo, England's Minister of Defence (equivalent to the US Defense Secretary) was introduced to party girls (like Christine Keeler) by popular osteopath Stephen Ward. But unlike some upper-crust friends of Ward, Profumo had more to lose. When it got out that Keeler had dated a Soviet Navy attache at about the same time as she dated the married Profumo, British tabloids had a field day noting that there were national security concerns atop the infidelity problem. One reason folks in the US have difficulty with this issue is that the story was overshadowed in the States by the almost simultaneous Cuban Missle Crisis.
The great soundtrack's now been out on CD for a few years; the theme was produced by the Pet Shop Boys and sung by authentic 60's icon Dusty Springfield. All other songs chosen charted during the early 60's, giving the film the ring of authenticity. And due possibly to legal problems, the original performance of Chubby Checker's THE TWIST couldn't be used, so Checker re-recorded it for this film. This newer, punchy 1989 version is the one used today behind Pantene shampoo commercials.