I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Michael Winner

Writer:

Peter Draper (writer)

Release Date:

11 April 1968 (West Germany)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

He smashed up his desk, gave up a wife, three mistresses and went back to the simple life. Then his troubles really started!

Plot:

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion...

Plot Keywords:

Advertising | Nudity | Apostrophe In Title | Career | Mistress

Cast

Orson Welles	...	Jonathan Lute
Oliver Reed	...	Andrew Quint
Carol White	...	Georgina Elben
Harry Andrews	...	Gerald Sater
Michael Hordern	...	Headmaster
Wendy Craig	...	Louise Quint
Norman Rodway	...	Nicholas
Marianne Faithfull	...	Josie
Frank Finlay	...	Chaplain
Ann Lynn	...	Carla
Harvey Hall	...	Charles Maccabee
Lyn Ashley	...	Susannah
Edward Fox	...	Walter
Basil Dignam
Mark Burns	...	Michael Cornwall

Also Known As:

I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname (USA) (video box title)

Runtime:

USA:97 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:X (1967) (cut) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London, England, UK

Company:

Scimitar Productions

Trivia:

The BBFC originally requested the complete removal of Josie's single use of 'fucking' for the film's cinema release. A compromise was reached between the censors and 'Michael Winner' and instead the word was partly obscured by the sound of a car horn.

Quotes:

Jonathan Lute: It's one of the 32 known Vermeers - 80 of which are in America.

Movie Connections:

References The Walking Dead (1936)

The swinging sixties grows up

Although constructed around "swinging " London this tale of futility in the pursuit of happiness endures. Oliver Reed will come as a surprise to most people who would not have thought the latter day hell raiser could deliver such a sensitive performance as the central character Andrew Quint.

A successful advertising exec Quint belabours the notion of a simple life and eschews the trappings of his current situation ( both professional and domestic ) to work at a small literary magazine with a friend from his days at Oxford. These trappings include two mistresses and an ex wife. The scenes with the mistresses are perhaps the least pleasing of the whole film.

"I never really saw the money anyway, it came in and went out ; if I felt like being successful I'd go and buy a new shirt"

A series of symbolic events unfold ( most notably a public school reunion and the pointless death of his new girlfriend )which only serve in Quint considering joining an equally exploitative competitor to the ad agency he quit at the outset.