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The Ruling Class (1972)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:9
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: THE RULING CLASS runs the full gamut of British entertainment--beautiful costumes, fabulous sets, serial killers, witty dialogue, burlesque striptease, opera and aristocracy, romance and insanity,... THE RULING CLASS runs the full gamut of British entertainment--beautiful costumes, fabulous sets, serial killers, witty dialogue, burlesque striptease, opera and aristocracy, romance and insanity, jealousy and drama, comedy and theology. The house of Gurney has a family problem, namely the 14th Earl of Gurney (Peter O'Toole in a brilliant performance), who suffers from a slight messiah complex. Unfortunately, the young earl is the sole heir to the family fortune, so his relatives go to great lengths to trick the would-be savior into siring a new heir. However, the earl has a few surprises for his greedy relations. THE RULING CLASS is a sprawling, bursting-at-the-seams send-up of the ingrown eccentricities of the British upper classes. With its outlandish situational dialogue, and with performers suddenly zipping out in song-and-dance routines, THE RULING CLASS is a dynamite comic triumph. [More]
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Coral Browne, Arthur Lowe, Alastair Sim
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Coral Browne, Arthur Lowe, Alastair Sim
Director: Peter Medak
Director: Peter Medak
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Reviews for The Ruling Class
In spots a very amusing and irreverent tongue-in-cheek satire on class that features a tour de force performance by Peter O'Toole.
The plot is convoluted but director Peter Medak makes some good satirical points about the British class system and Peter O'Toole is terrific in a well-deserved Oscar-nominated performance.
If it's true that a people get the government they deserve, mightn't it be equally true that a people get the God they deserve?
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