Ride of the Valkyrie is a 1967 British short comedy film directed by Peter Brook and starring Julia Foster, Zero Mostel, and Frank Thornton.[1][2]

Plot

An opera singer, dressed in full costume and dress, must navigate through the busy city streets to get to the theatre in time for his performance in Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.

Cast

Production history

It was originally commissioned by producer Oscar Lewenstein, then a director of Woodfall, as one third of a 'portmanteau' feature entitled Red, White and Zero, with sections supplied by Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz[3]

Reisz dropped out with his section becoming Brook's Ride of the Valkyrie. The two other planned sections of the film developed into what became Richardson's Red and Blue and Anderson's The White Bus. Of these, only The White Bus received a theatrical release in the UK.[4]

References

  1. ^ McFarlane, Brian (1997). An Autobiography of British Cinema: As Told by the Filmmakers and Actors who Made it. Methuen. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-413-70520-4.
  2. ^ "Ride of the Valkyrie". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  3. ^ Lindsay Anderson, Paul Ryan (ed) "Never Apologise: The Collected Writings", Plexus, 2004, p.105
  4. ^ Paul Sutton (ed.) The Diaries: Lindsay Anderson, London: Methuen, 2004, p.146n.


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