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The Breaking of Bumbo
The Breaking of Bumbo is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Andrew Sinclair and starring Richard Warwick, Joanna Lumley, Jeremy Child and Edward Fox. The screenplay was by Sinclair, a former Coldstream Guards National service officer, adapted from his 1959 novel of the same name.
Newly commissioned Guards Ensign 'Bumbo' Bailey learns the facts of life from his new girl friend in Swinging London as well as from his platoon and commanding officer.
Andrew Sinclair's novel came out in 1959 and was a bestseller. Woodfall Films had made an attempt to film it but, according to critic Alexander Walker this "had come to nothing, because there was not sufficient intervening time to allow the ‘youthful follies’ of the Suez War generation to have turned into the ‘camp amusements’ of the ‘Swinging Britain’ one. It was neither ‘period’ nor modern."
In 1962 it was announced Donald Taylor would produce a film of the novel from a script by Sinclair for his Carthage Films. However, this did not eventuate.
Eventually Andrew Sinclair and producer Jeffrey Selznick, son of David O. Selznick, formed a company, Timon Films, to make a film of Breaking of Bumbo. (They planned to follow it with a film called Wasn't This What You Came to See?) Sinclair later said "I updated the novel so that Bumbo now has to choose between obeying orders during a civil insurrection sympathizing with the young revolutionaries." Sinclair and Selznick set up the film at EMI Films whose new head of production, Bryan Forbes admired the novel. In August 1969 Forbes announced The Breaking of Bumbo as part of his initial slate for EMI Films with Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo to direct.
Brownlow and Mollo dropped out after an argument with the producers and Sinclair became the director. Brownlow recalled:
We had a classic battle with the producer over casting. The producer was the son of David O Selznick and the grandson of Louis B Mayer, so you could see at once we would not get on very well. We had chosen a young actor to play the lead and the producer didn’t want him; he wanted Richard Warwick, who is actually in it. We were so angry that, like fools, we confronted Selznick and you do not behave like that in the film business. He got rid of us. The young man’s name was Christopher Cazenove. Richard Warwick was a perfectly good actor but not right for the part, whereas Cazenove was absolutely spot-on. The film was finally directed by Andrew Sinclair, who wrote the book on which it was based.
According to another account, the first choice for the lead role was Malcolm McDowell who had been in if... (1968) but he was hired to make The Raging Moon (1971) at EMI under the direction of Forbes instead, so they hired Richard Warwick who had supported McDowell in if....
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The Breaking of Bumbo
The Breaking of Bumbo is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Andrew Sinclair and starring Richard Warwick, Joanna Lumley, Jeremy Child and Edward Fox. The screenplay was by Sinclair, a former Coldstream Guards National service officer, adapted from his 1959 novel of the same name.
Newly commissioned Guards Ensign 'Bumbo' Bailey learns the facts of life from his new girl friend in Swinging London as well as from his platoon and commanding officer.
Andrew Sinclair's novel came out in 1959 and was a bestseller. Woodfall Films had made an attempt to film it but, according to critic Alexander Walker this "had come to nothing, because there was not sufficient intervening time to allow the ‘youthful follies’ of the Suez War generation to have turned into the ‘camp amusements’ of the ‘Swinging Britain’ one. It was neither ‘period’ nor modern."
In 1962 it was announced Donald Taylor would produce a film of the novel from a script by Sinclair for his Carthage Films. However, this did not eventuate.
Eventually Andrew Sinclair and producer Jeffrey Selznick, son of David O. Selznick, formed a company, Timon Films, to make a film of Breaking of Bumbo. (They planned to follow it with a film called Wasn't This What You Came to See?) Sinclair later said "I updated the novel so that Bumbo now has to choose between obeying orders during a civil insurrection sympathizing with the young revolutionaries." Sinclair and Selznick set up the film at EMI Films whose new head of production, Bryan Forbes admired the novel. In August 1969 Forbes announced The Breaking of Bumbo as part of his initial slate for EMI Films with Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo to direct.
Brownlow and Mollo dropped out after an argument with the producers and Sinclair became the director. Brownlow recalled:
We had a classic battle with the producer over casting. The producer was the son of David O Selznick and the grandson of Louis B Mayer, so you could see at once we would not get on very well. We had chosen a young actor to play the lead and the producer didn’t want him; he wanted Richard Warwick, who is actually in it. We were so angry that, like fools, we confronted Selznick and you do not behave like that in the film business. He got rid of us. The young man’s name was Christopher Cazenove. Richard Warwick was a perfectly good actor but not right for the part, whereas Cazenove was absolutely spot-on. The film was finally directed by Andrew Sinclair, who wrote the book on which it was based.
According to another account, the first choice for the lead role was Malcolm McDowell who had been in if... (1968) but he was hired to make The Raging Moon (1971) at EMI under the direction of Forbes instead, so they hired Richard Warwick who had supported McDowell in if....