
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1969
- Starring
- Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Caroline Blakiston, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Attenborough, Laurence Harvey, Leonard Frey and others
- Writers
- Terry Southern and Joe McGrath
- Director
- Joe McGrath
- Producer
- Denis O'Dell
Eccentric multi-millionaire Sir Guy Grand meets a young, homeless man in a London park and decides to adopt him as his own son.
Setting out together, Guy intends to prove to his young protégé that anyone and anything can be bought: you just have to find the right price. They begin a series of adventures around Britain, showering ordinary people with cash to do extraordinary things, and to pull off the most peculiar stunts.
From a striptease Hamlet to a vat of sewage filled with cash, nobbling a traffic warden and fixing the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, the pair have as much fun as they can dream up. But the launching of a new luxury liner called The Magic Christian seems to offer a whole new world of opportunities.
- UK certificate
- A
- Duration
- 93 minutes
- Release date
- Friday 12th December 1969
- Produced
- 1969
- Distributor
- Production company
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- Last repeat
- Sunday 14th March 2021 at 12:55am on TPTV
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