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The Pleasure Garden is a 1953 short film written and directed by James Broughton, starring Hattie Jacques, Lindsay Anderson, and John Le Mesurier.




Plot


Filmed among the ruins of the Crystal Palace Terraces, The Pleasure Garden is a poetic ode to desire, featuring a bureaucrat determined to stamp out any form of free expression.




Cast


Hattie Jacques as Mrs Albion
Diana Maddox as Bess
Kermit Sheets as Sam
Jean Anderson as Aunt Minerva
John Le Mesurier as Colonel Pall K. Gargoyle
Maxine Audley as Lady Ennui
Derek Hart as Lord Ennui
Jill Bennett as Miss Kellerman
Lindsay Anderson as Michael-Angelico
John Heawood as Mr Nurmi
Hilary Mackendrick as Miss Wheeling
Gladys Spencer as Mrs Jennybelle
Gontron Goulden as Doctor Hemingway
Victoria Grayson as Miss Greaves
Mary Lee Settle as Mme Paganini
Daphne Hunter as Girl in Grass




Reception


The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This light extravaganza by the Californian poet James Broughton, whose 16-mm films (Mothers' Day, Loony Tom, etc.) have been seen over here, was financed by private subscription and shot entirely on location in the Crystal Palace Gardens, a perfect setting. It is a highly personal mixture of lyricism, mime, whimsy and caprice; some may find it too tenuous, but those who like it will like it very much indeed. It has a freedom all too rare in the cinema, and it is all freshly, unassumingly imagined: a real, a genuine lark. Professional and non-professional actors blend homogeneously under the director's eccentric guidance, Stanley Bate's music is full of entirely appropriate gaiety and invention, and Walter Lassally's photography is resourceful and attractively framed."




Accolades


The film won the Prix de Fantasie Poetique at Cannes in 1954.




Home media


The Pleasure Garden was released on DVD in the UK by the BFI on 15 February 2010. The release also includes The Phoenix Tower (UK, 1957, 39 min.), a short documentary charting the construction of the BBC's Crystal Palace Television Tower, plus a fully illustrated booklet with film notes, an original review and a history of the Crystal Palace.




See also


List of avant-garde films of the 1950s




References






External links


The Pleasure Garden at IMDb
The Pleasure Garden at AllMovie

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