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Tommy
- The Movie (1975) DVD
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Who's brilliant rock opera
is sublimely matched to director Ken Russell's penchant for cinematic excess,
and this 1975 production finds Russell at the peak of his filmmaking audacity. |
Tommy is played by Who vocalist
Roger Daltrey. Tommy's odyssey is rendered through wall-to-wall music,
each song representing a pivotal chapter in Tommy's chronology, from the
bloodstream shock of "The Acid Queen" (performed to the hilt by Tina Turner)
to Nicholson's turn as a well-intentioned physician, Elton John's towering
rendition of "Pinball Wizard," and Daltrey's epiphanous rendition of "I'm
Free." |
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