Themes: Office Politics, Boss from Hell, Ladder to the Top
Main Cast: Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Carol White, Harry Andrews, Michael Hordern
Release Year: 1967
Country: UK
Run Time: 99 minutes
Plot
The imprisoning aspects of Success are humorously analyzed in this British-made film. Oliver Reed plays a wealthy advertising man who feels he has sold his soul and wishes to return to his happier earlier existence as a poor but swinging Londoner. Reed is goaded on by his boss, Orson Welles, who represents all the mercenary crassness that Reed despises. Handed a crucial commercial account, Reed plans to destroy himself by producing as offensive and confusing an ad campaign as possible. But Welles and the client are delighted by the "insult," and the disgruntled Reed is more successful than ever. Directed in the fragmentary "psychedelic" style typical of the late 1960s, I'll Never Forget What's'is Name gained notoriety upon its initial release by being the first mainstream British film in which the "F" word was spoken on-screen. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Wendy Craig - Louise Quint; Marianne Faithfull - Josie; Norman Rodway - Nicholas; Frank Finlay - Chaplain; Harvey Hall - Macabee; Ann Lynn - Carla; Lyn Ashley - Susannah; Veronica Clifford - Anna; Edward Fox - Walter; Stuart Cooper - Lewis Force; Roland Curram - Eldrich; Peter Graves - Bankman; Mark Burns - Michael Cornwall; Mark Eden - Kellaway; Mona Chong - Vietnamese Girl; Robert Mill - Galloway; Basil Dignam; Bessie Love; Hugo Keith-Johnston - Young Andrew Quint
Credit
Seamus Flannery - Art Director, Bibas - Costume Designer, Michael Winner - Director, Bernard Gribble - Editor, Francis Lai - Composer (Music Score), Richard Mills - Makeup, Otto Heller - Cinematographer, Michael Winner - Producer, Peter Draper - Screenwriter
