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Movie
A Fine Madness
Synopsis
Sean Connery attempted to make a clean break from his "James Bond" image in the boisterous comedy A Fine Madness. Connery plays Samson Shillitoe, a Brendan Behan-like poet with a mile-wide misogynistic streak. Try as he might to complete his latest masterpiece, Shillitoe is constantly interrupted by the women in his life. Driven to a nervous breakdown, he seeks help from the medical establishment -- and ends up a babbling shell of his former self. The film takes scattered potshots at a repressive society that forces the truly creative among us into near-madness; at times, it is sidesplittingly funny, though never quite as potent as the Elliot Baker novel upon which it is based. Sean Connery is brilliant, but the public wanted James Bond to behave himself, thus the film didn't do as well at the box office as it should have.
Cast
- Sean Connery
- Joanne Woodward
- Patrick O'Neal
- Jean Seberg
- Colleen Dewhurst
- Clive Revill
- Werner Peters
- John Fiedler
- Kay Medford
- Jackie Coogan
- Zohra Lampert
- Sorrell Booke
- Sue Ane Langdon
- Bibi Osterwald
- Mabel Albertson
- Gerald S. O'Loughlin
- James Millhollin
- Jon Lormer
- Harry Bellaver
- Ayllene Gibbons
- Richard S. Castellano
- Bernie Meyer
- Richard Castellano
- Renée Taylor
- Ann Roth
- William Ziegler
- Ted McCord
- Ted D. McCord
- William H. Ziegler
- Jack Poplin
- Elliott Baker