Had someone exercised a little restraint, this one could have been a devastating satire on the British advertising industry and the mores of the 1960s. Reed, a hotshot TV commercials director, walks through London and into his office with a huge axe in his hand. He proceeds to smash
everything in sight, then resigns from his job. He is disgusted with the meaninglessness of his work and his empty relationship with his wife, Craig. He returns to the small literary magazine where he worked just after leaving Cambridge, thinking he can at last achieve intellectual freedom, but
the machinations here are every bit as distasteful to him as those of the advertising world. ...
Released:
1967
Rated:
NR
Length:
97 mins