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Tommy

Year:

1975

Duration:

111 min

Genres:

Musical

IMDB rate:

6.6

Director:

Ken Russell

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1975-03-26

Filming Locations: Cumbria, England, UK

Earnings

Budget: $5,000,000

Gross: $34,251,525 (USA)SEK 1,152,866 (Sweden)

Cast

Actor

Character

Ann-Margret

Tommy

Oliver Reed

Tommy

Roger Daltrey

Tommy Walker

Elton John

The Pinball Wizard

Eric Clapton

The Preacher

John Entwistle

Keith Moon

Uncle Ernie

Paul Nicholas

Cousin Kevin

Jack Nicholson

The Specialist

Robert Powell

Captain Walker

Pete Townshend

Tina Turner

The Acid Queen

Arthur Brown

The Priest

Victoria Russell

Sally Simpson

Ben Aris

Reverend Simpson

Mary Holland

Mrs. Simpson

Gary Rich

Rock Musician

Dick Allan

President Black Angels

Barry Winch

Young Tommy

Eddie Stacey

Bovver Boy

Liza Strike

Vocal Chorus (voice)

Gillian McIntosh

Vocal Chorus (voice)

Simon Townshend

Vocal Chorus / Newsboy (voice)

Vicki Brown

Vocal Chorus / Nurse #2 (voice)

Mylon LeFevre

Vocal Chorus (voice)

Kit Trevor

Vocal Chorus (voice)

Billy Nicholls

Vocal Chorus (voice)

Helen Shappel

Vocal Chorus (voice)

Jeff Roden

Vocal Chorus (voice)

Paul Gurvitz

Vocal Chorus (voice)

Margo Newman

Vocal Chorus / Nurse #1 (voice)

Alison Dowling

Vocal Chorus /

Jennifer Baker

Nurse #1 (uncredited)

Susan Baker

Nurse #2 (uncredited)

Peter Brace

Man with Knife (uncredited)

Imogen Claire

Nurse at the Specialist's Practice (uncredited)

Christine Hewett

Lady in Black Beauty Chocolate Commercial (uncredited)

Gillian King

Handmaiden to the Acid Queen

Juliet King

Handmaiden to the Acid Queen

Steven Longhurst

Tommy accolyte (uncredited)

James Payne

Man in Strip Club Collecting a Program (uncredited)

Alex 'Alien' Russell

(uncredited)

Ken Russell

Cripple (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The film is the second time Ann-Margret worked with Jack Nicholson since Carnal Knowledge (1971).

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According to Pete Townshend in the his book "Who I Am", when Stevie Wonder found out they were making a movie of Tommy, he wanted to play the Pinball Wizard, but Pete Townshend didn't think it would make sense that he would have a blind guy playing a guy with sight, playing pinball against someone who's supposed to be blind, deaf, and dumb. Needless to say, Stevie Wonder was a little upset at Pete Townshend over it.

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Ann-Margret learned her role by reading the script and listening to the original album by The Who. She recorded her part in a single eleven hour session.

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Goofs

During Ann-Margaret's "Rain Champagne" scene, the bottle of champagne she is 'drinking' from is clearly empty-several times in the scene it is lying on it side on the floor yet nothing flows from it, and during the close-ups where she is supposed to be drinking from the bottle, you can see that there is nothing inside it.

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When Nora throws Tommy through the mirror there are pieces of the mirror falling into the pool with Tommy. When Tommy comes back to the surface of the pool there are no mirror pieces in the pool.

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(Possibly deliberate error by filmmakers) Camera crew visible in auditorium box, during a sweeping shot at the beginning of the Pinball Wizard sequence. This could be lighting, however.

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Quotes

Acid Queen: [She starts singing] If your child ain't all he should be now, this girl will put him right. I'll show him what he could be now, just give me one more night!

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Tommy: See me, feel me. Touch me, heal me.

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Cousin Kevin: [Starts singing while playing on the piano] We're on our own, Cousin; all alone, Cousin! Let's think of a nice game to play... while the grown-ups have all gone away!

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