The Night They Raided Minsky's

A bawdy, period-set American comedy... directed by the director of The Exorcist? And starring Norman Wisdom? Yes, it’s The Night They Raided Minsky’s – a film much-acc... more >

A bawdy, period-set American comedy... directed by the director of The Exorcist? And starring Norman Wisdom? Yes, it’s The Night They Raided Minsky’s – a film much-acclaimed in its day, but now largely forgotten –and never issued on DVD or video. But here’s a welcome chance to reassess it. New York 1925, and Minsky’s Burlesque – comics, bawdy sketches, dancing girls but not a striptease in sight – is in danger of being closed down by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. When straight man Raymond and comic Chick fall for the same naïve Amish girl Rachel who has run away from home to become a dancer in the big city, the two men see an opportunity to save the theatre. The birth of striptease is a good subject for an irreverent comedy, and Friedkin has the measure of this. Even those who cannot take Norman Wisdom will be pleasantly surprised. A welcome rediscovery. < less

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Denholm Elliott, Jason Robards, Elliott Gould, Britt Ekland, Harry Andrews, Norman Wisdom, Forrest Tucker

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