French Dressing (1964)

Directed by

Ken Russell

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A deckchair attendant at a boring seaside town gets a promotion to publicity officer. He tries to attract tourists by organizing a film festival and inviting a French movie star.

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What happens

French Dressing is a 1964 British comedy film directed by Ken Russell (in his feature directorial debut) and starring James Booth, Marisa Mell and Roy Kinnear. It was written by Peter Myers, Ronald Cass and Peter Brett. The plot concerns a deckchair attendant in the run-down seaside resort of Gormleigh-on-Sea who is promoted to publicity officer. In an effort to drum up interest in the town, he organises a film festival and invites a major French film star. The event is soon thrown into chaos by the machinations of jealous mayors from rival towns. Russell later called it "a very unhappy film as far as I was concerned". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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