Scandalous (film)
{{Infobox film
| name = Scandalous
| image = Scandalous (film).jpg
| producer = Carter DeHaven
Martin C. Schute
Arlene Sellers
Alex Winitsky
| director = Rob Cohen
| writer = Larry Cohen
Rob Cohen
John Byrum
| based_on = play by Larry Cohen
| starring = {{Plainlist|
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| distributor = Orion Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1984|01|20|df=yes}}
| cinematography = Jack Cardiff
| editing = Michael Bradsell
| music = Dave Grusin
| runtime = 92 minutes
| country = United States
United Kingdom
| language = English
| gross = $526,805{{Mojo title|scandalous}}
}}
Scandalous is a 1984 British-American comedy film directed by Rob Cohen and starring Robert Hays, John Gielgud and Pamela Stephenson.{{cite web |title=Scandalous (1984) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b766d0160 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230143955/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b766d0160 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 30, 2019 |website=BFI |accessdate=20 March 2020 |language=en}} Cohen said it was the film "where my career will be determined."{{cite web |last1=Chase |first1=Chris |title=At the Movies (Corman sees 'Love Letters' setting trend.) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/27/movies/at-the-movies.html |website=The New York Times |accessdate=20 March 2020 |location=Section C |page=8 |date=27 January 1984}}
Cast
- Robert Hays as Frank Swedlin
- John Gielgud as Uncle Willie
- Pamela Stephenson as Fiona Maxwell Sayle
- M. Emmet Walsh as Simon Reynolds
- Nancy Wood as Lindsay Manning
- Preston Lockwood as Leslie
- Conover Kennard as Francine Swedlin
- Jim Dale as Inspector Anthony Crisp
Production
The film was based on a play by Larry Cohen. He adapted the play into a screenplay and sold it. According to Cohen, "after acquiring the script, the company once again did me the favor of changing everything around and screwing everything up! I thought Scandalous was an utterly dismal movie... If you have an actor as distinguished as John Gielgud in your cast, you should at least give him some material that is worthy of his talent. I don’t think anybody liked that film, including its director."{{cite book|last=Doyle|first= Michael|title=Larry Cohen: The Stuff of Gods and Monsters|publisher=Bear Manor Media|year=2015|pages=87–88}}
Cohen says that when he met Stephenson "she was wearing a leather mini-dress, her hair was spiked out two feet above her head, and I had a feeling she could radiate a sense of the outrageous."
=Filming locations=
- Polesden Lacey, England, UK
- Great Bookham, England, UK
- Dorking, England, UK
- Surrey, England, UK
- Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, England, UK (studio)
- Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London
Reception
The New York Times called it "a charmless caper movie that seems chiefly a pretext for the characters to keep changing their clothes."{{cite web |last1=Maslin |first1=Janet |title=Screen: 'Scandalous' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/20/arts/screen-scandalous.html |website=The New York Times |accessdate=20 March 2020 |location=Section C |page=4 |date=20 January 1984}}
References
External links
- {{IMDb title|0088046}}
- {{Rotten Tomatoes|scandalous}}
{{Rob Cohen}}
Category:Films directed by Rob Cohen
Category:American comedy films
Category:1980s English-language films
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