A Fine Madness (1966)
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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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 103 mins
Complete Cast:
- Sean Connery - Samson Shillitoe
- Jean Seberg - Lydia West
- Colleen Dewhurst - Dr. Vera Kropotkin
- Werner Peters - Dr. Vorbeck
- Kay Medford - Mrs. Fish
- Zohra Lampert - Mrs. Tupperman
- Sue Ane Langdon - Miss Walnicki
- Mabel Albertson - Chairwoman
- James Millhollin - Rollie Butter
- Harry Bellaver - Knocker
- Richard S. Castellano
- Joanne Woodward - Rhoda Shillitoe
- Patrick O'Neal - Dr. Oliver West
- Clive Revill - Dr. Menken
- John Fiedler - Daniel K. Papp
- Jackie Coogan - Mr. Fitzgerald
- Sorrell Booke - Leonard Tupperman
- Bibi Osterwald - Mrs. Fitzgerald
- Gerald O'Loughlin - Chester Quirk
- Jon Lormer - Dr. Huddleson
- Ayllene Gibbons - Club Woman
- Renée Taylor
- Director(s):
- Irvin Kershner
- Writer(s):
- Elliott Baker
- Producer(s):
- Jerome Hellman
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