I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name (Widescreen)

Oliver Reed cheerfully strolls the halls of his London high-rise office building with an ax slung over his shoulder. Impeccably dressed, nursing a mysterious smile under his dark brow, he looks every bit the well-dressed society thug as he renders his desk to kindling by way of resignation. Director Michael Winner knows how to kick off a film, and this antiestablishment satire is full of such gestures, mixed with wry humor and shaken by Reed's underplayed charm and easy confidence. Reed is TV commercial wunderkind Andrew Quint, a 32-year-old success who chucks his job and status symbol lifestyle for a career editing a prestigious but impoverished literary journal. Quint's decadent, cigar-chomping boss Jonathan Lute (Orson Welles) speaks softly and carries a big checkbook, constantly reappearing like a little devil whispering temptations into his ear with a cynical air. "I'm going to get an honest job," Quint tells Lute. "Silly boy. There's no such thing." The script fires wildly at a myriad of targets: public schools, private sellouts, consumerism, and hypocrisy. What makes this mod twist on the angry young man genre work is that Quint is neither angry, young, nor particularly sincere. Obsessed with the idea of freedom, he never really confronts his own, self-made prison. Carol White costars as his latest girlfriend, a big-eyed beauty with a Julie Christie smile; Marianne Faithfull and Lynn Ashley appear as his two mistresses; and Harry Andrews is memorable as a lascivious author. --Sean Axmaker

Widescreen presentation [1.85:1] enhanced for 16x9 TVs
Audio commentary with director Michael Winner
Theatrical trailer
Still gallery
Talent bios

The imprisoning aspects of Success are humorously analyzed in this British-made film. Oliver Reed plays a wealthy advertising man who feels he has sold his soul and wishes to return to his happier earlier existence as a poor but swinging Londoner. Reed is goaded on by his boss, Orson Welles, who represents all the mercenary crassness that Reed despises. Handed a crucial commercial account, Reed plans to destroy himself by producing as offensive and confusing an ad campaign as possible. But Welles and the client are delighted by the "insult," and the disgruntled Reed is more successful than ever. Directed in the fragmentary "psychedelic" style typical of the late 1960s, I'll Never Forget What's'is Name gained notoriety upon its initial release by being the first mainstream British film in which the "F" word was spoken on-screen. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

• Side #1 --
  • Extras
    • Trailer
    • Commentary
      • Commentary With Director Michael Winner: On
      • Commentary With Director Michael Winner: Off
    • Talent Bios
      • Michael Winner - Director
      • Oliver Reed - Star
    • Still Gallery
  • Resume

Side #1 --
0. Chapter Selections
1. Program Start/Main Titles [3:12]
2. Andrew Resigns [1:54]
3. Andrew Visits His Wife [2:03]
4. Walter's Pad [1:11]
5. Goodbye, Josie [1:52]
6. Andrew's New Employer [2:11]
7. A Visit to the Office [1:57]
8. Lunchtime Rendezvous [2:35]
9. Andrew's New Job [2:53]
10. Andrew and Georgina on the Town [2:05]
11. Louise at the Art Gallery [2:21]
12. College Reunion [4:54]
13. The Hunt [6:16]
14. Georgina's Houseboat [4:27]
15. Jonathan Drops In [5:18]
16. Andrew Interrupts the Commercial [2:16]
17. The Morning After With Louise [3:07]
18. "I've Never Been to Cambridge." [3:07]
19. Andrew Visits Gerald Sater [2:34]
20. A Private Eye Stalks Andrew [5:33]
21. Nicholas Sells Out [5:38]
22. Andrew Attempts His Freedom [4:31]
23. Sex on the Houseboat [3:31]
24. Andrew's New Commercial [3:48]
25. Georgina's Death [4:21]
26. Festival of Creative Advertising [12:54]
27. Andrew Throws Out His Award [2:13]