
Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment
Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (also called Morgan!) is a 1966 British comedy film directed by Karel Reisz and starring David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, and Robert Stephens, with Irene Handl and Bernard Bresslaw. It was made by British Lion and produced by Leon Clore from a screenplay by David Mercer, adapted from his BBC television play A Suitable Case for Treatment (1962), in which the leading role was played by Ian Hendry. A film poster for the film is prominently shown in High-Rise (2015) .
Plot
Morgan Delt is a failed working-class London artist, who was raised as a communist by his parents. His upper-class wife, Leonie, has given up on him and is in the process of getting a divorce in order to marry Charles Napier, an art gallery owner of her own social standing. Locked into a personal world of fantasy, Morgan performs a series of bizarre stunts in a campaign to win back Leonie, including putting a skeleton in her bed and blowing up the bed as her mother sits on it. When these stunts fail, Morgan secures the help of Wally "The Gorilla", a pro wrestler friend of his mother, to kidnap Leonie, who still nurtures residual feelings of love tinged with pity for Morgan. Leonie is left with Morgan and Wally in the British countryside (clips from Tarzan (1943) are cut into the film). Leonie soon gets rescued, and Morgan is arrested and imprisoned.
More details
author | David Mercer |
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contentLocation | London |
director | Karel Reisz |
editor | Jack Harris Tom Priestley |
events | mental health |
genre | comedy-drama |
keywords | arrest art gallery communist fantasy world gallery owner hammer and sickle insane asylum king kong locked in pro wrestling rescue tarzan tarzan triumphs wedding reception |
musicBy | John Dankworth |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White |
producer | Leon Clore |
publisher | British Lion Films |
theme | independent |