Last week we watched 'Charlie Bubbles', a 1967 British film starring Albert Finney, Lisa Minelli, Billie Whitelaw, Colin Blakely, and written by Shelagh Delaney. Finney also directed. The producer was the actor Michael Medwin, who with Finney had founded the production company 'Memorial Enterprises'. Well, what's not to like? you may think. You would be wrong. The result is decidedly flat-footed. Finney plays the eponymous hero, a successful novelist, who goes on a picaresque journey back to his roots in the North. (North of England that is.) Not as bad as the adaptation of Iris Murdoch's 'A Severed head' - it has its moments, after all - but still a dud.
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