Rent The Committee (1968)
3.4 of 5 from 48 ratings
0h 58min
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- Synopsis:
"The Committee" is directed by Peter Sykes and based on a chilling fable by Max Steuer. Although discernably influenced by Harold Pinter, R.D. Laing and recent Czech movies, the film has a savage narrative life of its own. In a summery glade a cool hitch-hiker casually beheads a man who has given him a lift. Soon afterwards the hitch-hiker is summoned to join a mysterious 'committee', convened in a country house by the people who exercise power. The smiling young director of the committee cross-questions him.
Director: Some people think that the criminals and the mad are the real heroes.
Hitch-hiker: Why not, in a corrupt society?
Director: But in a reasonable society?Hitch-hiker: There are no criminals.
Director: So one criminal act could turn a reasonable society into an unreasonable one. With a macabre cabaret intrusion by Arthur Brown, this is an admirable British film exploring the implications of one criminal act. He is a member of an unworkable committee, the committee of the nation, and this is why he expends less disciplined effort on mastering a political problem than he expends on a game of bridge.- Actors:
- Arthur Brown, Jimmy Gardner, Paul Jones, Tom Kempinski, Robert Langdon Lloyd, Pauline Munro
- Directors:
- Peter Sykes
- Producers:
- Max Steuer
- Writers:
- Max Steuer, Peter Sykes
- Studio:
- Basho
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Music & Musicals, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Special Interest
