Ken Russell is ringmaster to a head-spinning series of gaudy tableaux: London in flames after a Luftwaffe raid, a pagan religious service paying frenzied tribute to plaster icons of Marilyn Monroe, a smashed TV screen spewing a mixture of baked beans and laundry suds into an ivory-white bedroom. All the while, Peter Townshend's rock opera is going full-blast, non-stop, smothering these fulsome visuals like a blanket. For all their bravura, Russell's images remain incidental, illustrational, and they seem, in comparison with most of his movies, almost subdued. Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Roger Daltry, Jack Nicholson, Elton John. (1975) — Duncan Shepherd
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