Special Report: Tommy (1975)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 217 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we’re looking at Ken Russell’s Tommy. Released in 1975 this is an interpretation of The Who’s Rock Opera of the same name which stars Roger Daltry as the titular Tommy. After witnessing a scene of his mother and her lover killing his father, Tommy is rendered psychosomatically blind, deaf, and mute. He becomes a wiz at pinball, starts a religion, and is eventually brought low as a false prophet.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:09.6	We are proud to announce a truly outstanding rock opera film, Tommy.
0:23.5	If I'm not using the table He can't beat the best
0:25.2	His snackers lead him in
0:26.9	And he just does the wrist
0:28.7	He's got crazy flipper fingers
0:30.6	I've never seen him fall
0:32.2	That death down one blind kid
0:34.2	Chal play with me in panball
0:37.1	Famed blind here Stop playing with me in blackball Fear me
0:40.3	Feel me The Come to me now, come to me now, come to me now come to me now
1:29.3	director Ken Russell and producer Robert
1:35.8	Stinkler have made a film of Tommy
1:38.0	and assembled some of the greatest names in music and the cinema
1:42.2	Tommy by the Who and based on the rock opera by Peter Townsend, stars Anne Margaret, Oliver
1:50.5	Reed, Jack Nicholson, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Roger Daltrey as Tommy.
2:00.6	Don't miss Tommy, the film.
2:03.7	Your senses will never be the same again.
2:09.8	Good morning, converts.
2:11.7	I'm your brother Mike White, and I welcome you to the projection booth,
2:15.1	a podcast with a difference, never mind the weather.
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