I'll Never Forget What's'isname

I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname
Directed by	Michael Winner
Produced by	Michael Winner
Written by	Peter Draper
Starring	Oliver Reed; Carol White; Orson Welles; Harry Andrews; Marianne Faithfull
Music by	Francis Lai[1]
Cinematography	Otto Heller
Edited by	Bernard Gribble
Distributed by	J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors (theater); Anchor Bay Entertainment (DVD)
Release date	18 December 1967;
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname (title on the original British posters and on the DVD cover) or I'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT'S 'iSNAME (title on the original print, trailer and soundtrack album) is a 1967 British film directed and produced by Michael Winner. It stars Oliver Reed and Orson Welles. The film deals with creativity and commercialism.

Plot

The opening credits run as a man carries a large axe through the streets of London. He then enters an office and destroys a desk with the axe.

The man, Quint (Oliver Reed) works for Dallafield Advertising alongside Lute (Orson Welles).

Although Quint is married he then goes through a series of affairs with younger women. He starts remembering his cruel school life and these memories become intertwined with the present.

Disillusioned London advertising executive Andrew Quint (Reed) attempts to get back at his boss Jonathan Lute (Welles) by making a negative commercial reusing themes from earlier in the film, including Lute saying "The number one product of all human endeavor is waste... waste." The commercial, advertising a Super-8 camera, talks about capturing events while you still can before everything is destroyed and discarded. It ends with Quint operating a car crusher and destroying numerous cameras. The commercial is hailed as a masterpiece, and wins an award, but Quint hurls the award into the River Thames, and escapes into Swinging London.

Cast

Orson Welles as Jonathan Lute
Oliver Reed as Andrew Quint
Carol White as Georgina Elben
Harry Andrews as Gerald Sater, Quints old teacher
Michael Hordern as Headmaster
Wendy Craig as Louise Quint
Norman Rodway as Nicholas
Marianne Faithfull as Josie
Frank Finlay as School Chaplain
Ann Lynn as Carla
Harvey Hall as Charles Maccabee
Lyn Ashley as Susannah
Edward Fox as Walter
Mark Burns as Michael Cornwall
Mark Eden as Kelloway
Stuart Cooper as Lewis Force
Roland Curram as Eldrich

Soundtrack

The soundtrack by Francis Lai was released on LP by Decca Records.[1]

Reception

The film received generally positive reviews.[2][3][4][5][6]

Controversy

In the United States, the film was denied a MPAA seal of approval due to a scene between Oliver Reed and Carol White which supposedly implied cunnilingus.[2] Winner, in his audio commentary, said he considered the scene to show masturbation. The Catholic League inaccurately described it as "fellatio". Universal distributed the film through a subsidiary that was not a member of the MPAA. Along with a similar scene in Charlie Bubbles (1967), this helped to bring about the end of the Production Code in the US and its replacement with a ratings system.

The film has been incorrectly named as the first mainstream film to propose the use in the dialogue of fuck. In fact, the BBFC certified the film after demanding the removal, or at least obscuring, of the word fucking in June 1967, three months later than Ulysses, which suffered heavier cuts. The error seems to have arisen because of a longstanding lack of easily obtainable film release date information.

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References

"Decca Issues Varied Spring LPs". Cash Box. 20 April 1968. p. 54.
Winner, Michael (2013). "Michael Winner: Winner Takes All: A Life of Sorts". Pavilion Books. ISBN 978-1-909396-21-0.
Schickel, Richard (17 May 1968). "A Bitter No-Exit from Success". Life. p. 12.
Rexroat, Gary (14 October 1958). "Movie Depicts Society Vs. Arts". The Kentucky Kernel.
Maltin, Leonard (2007). Leonard Maltin's 2008 Movie Guide. p. 655. ISBN 978-0-451-22186-5.
Craddock, Jim, ed. (2006). VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 2007. p. 430. ISBN 978-0-7876-8980-3.

External links

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[cashbox29unse_36-1] "Decca Issues Varied Spring LPs". Cash Box. 20 April 1968. p. 54.

[winner-2] Winner, Michael (2013). "Michael Winner: Winner Takes All: A Life of Sorts". Pavilion Books. ISBN 978-1-909396-21-0.

[3] Schickel, Richard (17 May 1968). "A Bitter No-Exit from Success". Life. p. 12.

[4] Rexroat, Gary (14 October 1958). "Movie Depicts Society Vs. Arts". The Kentucky Kernel.

[5] Maltin, Leonard (2007). Leonard Maltin's 2008 Movie Guide. p. 655. ISBN 978-0-451-22186-5.

[6] Craddock, Jim, ed. (2006). VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 2007. p. 430. ISBN 978-0-7876-8980-3.