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The Magic Christian
Directed by
Joseph McGrath
PG
1969
1h 32m
Comedy
5.8
61%
68%
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The world's richest man and his adopted hobo son set out to test the limits of human vanity and greed through a series of "money games".
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Cast of The Magic Christian
Peter Sellers
Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE
Ringo Starr
Youngman Grand, Esq.
Isabel Jeans
Dame Agnes Grand
Caroline Blakiston
Hon. Esther Grand
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Captain Reginald K. Klaus
Spike Milligan
Traffic Warden
John Cleese
Director in Sotheby's
Richard Attenborough
Oxford Coach
John Le Mesurier
Sir John
Raquel Welch
Priestess of the Whip
Roman Polanski
Solitary Drinker
Leonard Frey
Laurence Faggot
Laurence Harvey
Hamlet
Christopher Lee
Ship's Vampire
Clive Dunn
Sommelier
Patrick Holt
Duke in Sotheby's
Ferdy Mayne
Edouard
Dennis Price
Winthrop
Yul Brynner
Transvestite Cabaret Singer
Graham Chapman
Oxford Crew
James Laurenson
Oxford Crew
Frank Thornton
Police Inspector
Hattie Jacques
Ginger Horton
Jeremy Lloyd
Lord Hampton
David Hutcheson
Lord Barry
Michael Aspel
Himself
Alan Whicker
Himself
Edward Sinclair
Park Attendant
The Magic Christian Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
Roger Greenspun
Funny, uncomfortable and without an ounce of benevolence.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Is it all of its era? Yes, most definitely. But it's also as relevant and funny and pointed as it ever was.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Steve Crum
Odd yet fun comedy-fantasy starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
It's too long and too silly ("Very silly indeed!") to work in the long run, so feel free to start and stop it at will -- you won't miss a thing.
Film Comment Magazine
Violet Lucca
Joseph McGrath's movie version remains an acerbic, late-Sixties dark comedy classic.
Variety
Variety Staff
A spotty, uneven satire (from the novel by Terry Southern) with a number of good yocks, but insufficient sustained wit or related action.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
A curdled, unfunny satire made more painful by McGrath's inappropriately jubilant style.
Los Angeles Free Press
Michael Ross
Vital, devastating and immensely entertaining.
DVDJournal.com
Mark Bourne
...drips with low-gloss British Mod Pop style and a would-be Richard Lester vibe, but with no clue about how to put its abundant British talent, chiefly Peter Sellers, to any worthy purpose beyond playing at adolescent cynicism.
Vague Visages
D.M. Palmer
The Magic Christian cries out to be re-visited. For all the cultural specificity of the novel and film, Grand remains a strikingly modern figure.
TV Guide
A brazen, irreverent, and wild satire that hits more often than it misses.
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