In the annals of lost rock and roll movies, the greatest of all was the Joe Orton scripted Beatles movie Up Against It and the second greatest? Roger Ebert scripted, Russ Myer directed Sex Pistols movie “Who Killed Bambi” aka “Anarchy In The UK”.
The plug was pulled after four days of filming, but his soft soap sexy A Hard Day’s Night would have been vastly superior to the diabolical The Great Rock And Roll Swindle.
As a tribute to the late Malcolm Mclaren, Roger Ebert has posted the original screenplay:
I’ve glanced at it and even watched the opening sequence but if I can stop writing for a minute I’ll read it through and write a summary…