Privates on Parade

Privates on Parade (1983)

Corre el año 1947, año de la rebelión comunista en Malaya, y la SADUSEA (Unidad de Canto y Danza del Sudeste Asiático) del ejército británico es llamada a la Jungla Malaya para entretener a las tropas. El excéntrico y fanático de la Biblia, el Mayor Giles Flack (John Cleese), está al mando de la unidad. Flack está acompañado por Terri Dennis (Denis Quilley), un actor teatral de edad avanzada que espera entretener a las tropas con sus extravagantes imitaciones, pero las tropas, aburridas, encuentran otras maneras de divertirse.

Fecha de estreno
1983-03-18
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (22)
Duración
1 h 53 min
Géneros
Comedia, Drama, Bélica, Música
Director
Michael Blakemore

Reparto

Curiosidades

Privates on Parade is a 1983 British black comedy film directed by Michael Blakemore and starring John Cleese, Denis Quilley and Nicola Pagett. It was written by Peter Nichols adapted from his 1977 play of the same name about a fictional and mostly gay military entertainment group, the "Song and Dance Unit South East Asia (SADUSEA)" assembled to entertain the troops in the Malayan jungle during the Malayan Emergency.

Production

The original stage play debuted successfully in 1977. Film rights were bought by HandMade Films which financed the movie. According to Ray Cooper of HandMade, the film was a passion project of Denis O'Brien, who owned the company with George Harrison.

O'Brien wanted to star all members of Monty Python in the lead roles. They refused except for John Cleese, who agreed to play the part originated by Nigel Hawthorne on stage. Cleese said "Nichols has the gift for making audiences rolling in the aisles one second and hovering on the verge of tears the next."

The budget was originally reported being £1.5 million. Many people associated with the stage production were brought on to the film, including actors Denis Quilley, Joe Melia and Simon Jones, writer Peter Nichols and director Michael Blakemore.

Blakemore said the script made some key changes from the play (which he called "a series of music hall sketches") by "taking up one stray narrative thread that was just hanging there in the play." This was the plot about a sergeant major who was selling weapons to the communists. "The music sketches now make more sense," said Blakemore. "The tighter construct makes stronger the points that Peter wanted to make in the play.

Filming started May 1982. It was entirely shot in England, locations including Alderton Army base, and studio work done at Shepperton. Filming coincided with the Falklands War. Blakemore later said "we made what amounts to a war musical, including action sequences, in 11 weeks for less than £2 million."

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