Ride of the Valkyrie (1967 film) explained

Ride of the Valkyrie
Director:Peter Brook
Producer:Lindsay Anderson
Oscar Lewenstein
Screenplay:Peter Brook
Starring:Zero Mostel
Frank Thornton
Julia Foster
Music:Howard Blake
Cinematography:David Watkin
Editing:Marlene Fletcher
Studio:Woodfall Film Productions
Holly Productions
Distributor:United Artists
Runtime:14 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: McFarlane, Brian. An Autobiography of British Cinema: As Told by the Filmmakers and Actors who Made it. 1997. Methuen. 978-0-413-70520-4. 13.
  2. Web site: Ride of the Valkyrie . 15 June 2024 . British Film Institute Collections Search.
  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.