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The Jokers is a 1967 British comedy film directed by Michael Winner and starring Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed. [4] It was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais . Two brothers hatch a plot to steal the Crown Jewels .
"The Joker's Hard Times" is the 72nd episode of the Batman television series in its second season. Part 2 of a three-part story, it first aired on ABC January 12, 1967 (a full year after the series' debut on The Alphabet Network) and repeated on June 15 the same year.
A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1967 (see 1967 in film): 1967. Title Director Cast Genre Notes ... The Jokers: Michael Winner: Michael Crawford ...
Winner was reunited with Reed on The Jokers (1967), a comedy where Reed was teamed with Michael Crawford. It was based on a script by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais from a story by Winner for his own company, Scimitar Films Limited (for Universal's English operations, then under Jay Kanter). The resulting movie was a popular hit. [27]
Massey appeared in numerous British films from the 1950s onwards, including The Jokers (1967), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Vault of Horror (1973, in which his character's sister was played by his real-life sister, Anna Massey), The Cat and the Canary (1979), Victory! (1981) and In the Name of the Father (1993). [5]
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have enjoyed a long and successful career embracing films, television and theatre. Their partnership began in the mid-1960s with The Likely Lads, and by the end of the decade they had also written three feature films: The Jokers, Otley, (directed by Clement) and Hannibal Brooks.
Quentin Tarantino made headlines in late October when he defended “Joker: Folie à Deux” and said that Joaquin Phoenix gives “one of the best performances I’ve ever seen in my life in this ...
He played a colonel in a comedy The Jokers (1967) and had a part as a heroic scientist in Quatermass and the Pit (1967). [5] Donald starred in a 1960 television adaptation of A. J. Cronin's The Citadel and appeared regularly in many other television dramas in the UK and US.