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Genres:
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Comedy /
Music /
Musical /
Music
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Director:
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Julien Temple
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Actors:
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Steve Jones,
Jess Conrad,
John Lydon,
James Aubrey,
Malcolm McLaren,
Paul Cook,
Sid Vicious,
Ronald Biggs,
Mary Millington,
Liz Fraser
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Duration:
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103 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)54
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Plot Summary:
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A more readily unintelligible fill someone in on-breakup Sexual congress Pistols "documentary", told from the point of estimate of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Relations Pistols in selective and vandal sway in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to take in "a million pounds." Dolt and hard to follow at times, but value seeing for some excellent Pistols concert footage, some wickedly amusing animated sequences, and Sid Spiteful' eerily fatidic bringing off of "My Way."
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Fortgang The speed to self-mythologise is written into rock's DNA and in 1978 the Shacking up Pistols' epic - who did what for whom, and why - was smooth up for grabs. The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle is executive Malcolm McLaren's attempt to minimize himself into CV as the band's prime mover, manipulator and ideologue while stealing uncivilized from the music production what he maintained it had stolen from amaze 'n' billowing. It is, for all its faults, a given of the most fascinating astonish movies eternally made. It's candid, inaccurate, underground and polemical. Director Julien Temple, a schoolchild in 1977 and also pen-friend of the band, sold the project to McLaren but inadvertently ended up as his stooge. Johnny Despicable refused to partici...
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