What Changed Charley Farthing?

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What Changed Charley Farthing?
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Original British quad poster
Directed by Sidney Hayers
Written by
  • David Pursall
  • Jack Seddon
Based onWhat Changed Charley Farthing? by John Harris
Starring
CinematographyGraham Edgar
Edited by Bernard Gribble
Music by
Production
company
Patuna Productions
Distributed by Fox-Rank
Release date
  • 27 April 1975 (1975-04-27)
Running time
109 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • Spain
LanguageEnglish

What Changed Charley Farthing? (also known as The Bananas Boat), is a 1975 comedy film directed by Sidney Hayers, starring Doug McClure, Lionel Jeffries, and Hayley Mills. [1] [2] It was written by David Pursall and Jack Seddon based on the 1965 novel of the same title by John Harris (as Mark Hebden).

Contents

Premise

Roaming sailor Charley Farthing is paid to give safe passage out of revolutionary Cuba to a young woman and her fathere.

Cast

Production

The film was shot at Pinewood Studios near London, and on location in Aguilas in Spain, which filled in for Havana. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lionel Couch and Enrique Alarcón.

Release

What Changed Charley Farthing? was not released in the United States until January 1976. [3]

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "this is a comedy: a fact signified by having the characters sit down on prickly cacti, drop heavy cases on each other's toes and – at various intervals amid the "hilarity" – scuttle around with uncovered, blushing buttocks. This dreary romp sadly misuses the comic potential of Lionel Jeffries and Warren Mitchell, recalls more successful Cold War comedies of the Sixties ("Cumbra" standing in for Cuba), and makes one wish Doug McClure (last seen in The Land that Time Forgot ) would return to his TV Westerns." [4]

TV Guide called the film "a total misfire." [5]

The Spectator called it "a nice piece of slapstick". [6]

Filmink called it "a painful attempt at an African Queen-type jaunt... with Mills attempting an odd accent and seeming unhappy." [7]

Leslie Halliwell said: "Weirdly ineffective comedy actioner which never gets started and should never have been thought of." [8]

References

  1. ↑ "What Changed Charley Farthing?". British Film Institute. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  2. ↑ "What Changed Charley Farthing? (1974)". Archived from the original on 21 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "What Changed Charley Farthing? – Film from RadioTimes".
  4. ↑ "What Changed Charley Farthing?" . The Monthly Film Bulletin . 42 (492): 118. 1 January 1975 – via ProQuest.
  5. ↑ "What Changed Charley Farthing?". Archived from the original on 6 March 2019.
  6. ↑ What Changed Charley Farthing? Robinson, Kenneth. The Spectator; London Vol. 234, Iss. 7661, (26 Apr 1975): 522.
  7. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (19 March 2022). "Movie Star Cold Streaks: Hayley Mills". Filmink.
  8. ↑ Halliwell, Leslie (1989). Halliwell's Film Guide (7th ed.). London: Paladin. p. 1103. ISBN   0586088946.
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