Themes: Class Differences, Crumbling Marriages, Wrongly Committed
Main Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, David Warner, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl, Newton Blick, Bernard Bresslaw
Release Year: 1966
Country: UK
Run Time: 93 minutes
Plot
A classic 1960's cult film in the British "angry young man" tradition, the hero of this film from Czech director Karel Reisz is more lunatic than agitator. Morgan Delt (David Warner) is an artist from a working class background, married to Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave), a woman far above him in social standing. Given to a rich fantasy life to begin with, Morgan goes off the mental deep end when Leonie informs him that she's asking for a divorce and taking up with art dealer Robert Stephens (Charles Napier), a man more befitting her class. Thoroughly gone around the bend, Morgan enacts a series of bizarre gags and stunts in a campaign to win Leonie back, including putting a skeleton in her bed and crashing her wedding dressed as a gorilla. His antics eventually get Morgan arrested and committed to an asylum, where he embraces his mother's ardent communist beliefs. Redgrave was Oscar nominated for Best Actress for her role, her feature film debut. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
Philip Harrison - Art Director, Jocelyn Rickards - Costume Designer, Karel Reisz - Director, Tom Priestley - Editor, Johnny Dankworth - Composer (Music Score), Larry Pizer - Cinematographer, Gerry Turpin - Cinematographer, Leon Clore - Producer, David Mercer - Screenwriter, David Mercer - Play Author, Zelda Barron - Assistant to the Director
[Etymology: T. H. Morgan; USA 1866-1945] chemistry The unit of gene separation, being the distance along a chromosome for which the recombination probability is 1%. It is estimated to be about 300 μm.
(Abbr.M) A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome based on the frequency with which the genes cross over; one unit equals a theoretical crossover value of 100 percent between two loci.
Morgan! (original UK title: Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment) is a 1966comedy film made by the British Lion Films Corporation. It was directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Leon Clore from a screenplay by David Mercer, based on his 1962 television play for BBC Television, the leading role at that time being played by Keith Barron.
The eponymous hero is working-class artist Morgan Delt (David Warner), obsessed with Karl Marx and gorillas, who tries to stop his ex-wife (Vanessa Redgrave) from remarrying.
Morgan Delt is an artist from a working class background, married to Leonie, a woman far above him in social standing. Given to a rich fantasy life to begin with, Morgan goes off the mental deep end when Leonie informs him that she is asking for a divorce and taking up with art dealer Charles Napier (Stephens), a man more befitting her class. Thoroughly gone around the bend, Morgan enacts a series of bizarre gags and stunts in a campaign to win Leonie back, including putting a skeleton in her bed and crashing her wedding dressed as a gorilla (the film segues into brief extracts from the original King Kong film). His antics get Morgan arrested and committed to an insane asylum, where he embraces his mother's ardent communist beliefs.
