Sean Connery

Joanne Woodward

Jean Seberg

Colleen Dewhurst

Jackie Coogan

Patrick O'Neal

Clive Revill

Werner Peters

John Fiedler

Kay Medford

Zohra Lampert

Sorrell Booke

Sue Ane Langdon

Bibi Osterwald

Mabel Albertson

Renée Taylor

Al Bain

Calvin Brown

Lovyss Bradley

Joyce Perry

James Millhollin

Nora Denney

Roland La Starza

Irvin Kershner

Elliott Baker

Ted D. McCord

Claude E. Carpenter

John Addison

Ann Roth

Gordon Bau

Ward Preston

William H. Ziegler

Jack Poplin

Jean Burt Reilly

Jerome Hellman

Russell Llewellyn

Everett A. Hughes

Comedy

Drama

Romance

A Fine Madness

Pan Arts

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

_**Kooky farce about an obnoxious nonconformist and the incompetence of mental health quacks**_ 

An abusive creative type in Manhattan (Sean Connery) has writer’s block and is compelled by his waitress wife (Joanne Woodward) to visit a psychiatrist (Patrick O'Neal), but the bore’s dallyings with the quack’s wife (Jean Seberg) worsen the situation. Meanwhile Clive Revill is on hand as a mad lobotomist.      

Believe it or not, “A Fine Madness” (1966) has nothing to do with secret agent shenanigans, but is rather a zany Manhattan farce with a theme that would be done more effectively in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” (1975). Nevertheless, it’s amusing seeing Connery play a cranky, boozing, womanizing poet who cleans carpets for a living. 

Woodward is also entertaining as his not-gonna-take-it wife. Speaking of which, the flick scores pretty well on the feminine front with the likes of Seberg and Sue Ane Langdon (Miss Walnicki). Colleen Dewhurst even shows up.

The film’s also worth checking out just to travel back in time to Manhattan of the mid-60s.

The movie runs 1 hour, 44 minutes and was shot on the East Side of Manhattan, plus Long Island.

GRADE: B-

English

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