The off-the-wall 1967 movie ‘Smashing Time‘ was the second time that Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave appeared together. Three years before that, they were in ‘Girl With Green Eyes’. Both movies were directed by Desmond Davis, but they couldn’t be more different. Desmond Davis is best known for directing ‘Clash of the Titans’, which has a big remake being released next week.
‘Girl With Green Eyes’ was produced by Tony Richardson. After a cheerful start, it has some of the same dark, depressing tone that I associate with Richardson’s ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’.
Here’s a sample of ‘Girl With Green Eyes’ that I spliced together, (with Spanish subtitles for Lia Pamina). Curiously, the band that’s playing in the dance hall scene sounds more like it belongs in ‘American Graffiti’, than in the Beatles-obsessed England of 1963-64.
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Good point. I should have said “English Isles” or something like that. Donovan said that the Beatles influence was in Scotland….
http://www.dograt.com/2009/08/02/donovan-prince-of-flower-power/
…. but Scotland is, of course, part of the same body of land as England.
Dougie, they’re not in England, they’re in Dublin, she even says so! The accents are a dead giveaway, and I confirmed it on imdb.com. I’m not sure how the boys were received in Ireland, are you? Isn’t that weird, I don’t even know if they ever even PLAYED there!