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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
Directed by Julien Temple
Comedy, Documentary, Music · 1h 43m
A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make "a million pounds."
Cast
Malcolm McLaren
The Embezzler
Steve Jones
The Crook
Paul Cook
The Tea-Maker
Sid Vicious
The Gimmick
John Lydon
The Collaborator
H
Helen Wellington-Lloyd
Helen
Ronald Biggs
The Exile
Liz Fraser
Woman in Cinema
Jess Conrad
Jess
Mary Millington
Mary, The Crook's girlfriend
James Aubrey
Record Executive
Julian Holloway
Man
Crew
- Director
- Julien Temple
- Writer
- Julien Temple
- Director of Photography
- Nicholas D. Knowland, Adam Barker-Mill, Willi Patterson, John Metcalfe
Details
- Release date
- 1980-09-11
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Comedy, Documentary, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Boyd's Company, Kendon Films Ltd., Matrixbest, Virgin Films