Performance (Film)

• James Fox: Chas / Johnny Dean
• Mick Jagger: Turner
• Anita Pallenberg: Pherber
• Michèle Breton: Lucy
• Ann Sidney: Dana
• John Bindon: Moody
• Stanley Meadows: Rosenbloom
• Allan Cuthbertson: lawyer
• Anthony Morton: Dennis
• Johnny Shannon: Harry Flowers
• Anthony Valentine Joey Maddocks
• Kenneth Colley: Tony Farrell
• John Rochester Country: chauffeur

Performance is a British film drama of 1968; James Fox played the lead role, Mick Jagger was next to him his acting debut. Donald Cammell wrote the screenplay and directed by Nicolas Roeg. The studio Goodtimes Enterprises produced the film with a budget of £ 750,000; because of its controversial content, the film was first published in August 1970, distributed by Warner Bros.

Action

Chas is a member of a gang in London's East End. As a debt collector for the gang boss Harry Flowers, he turns to violence experienced. Flowers decides to incorporate a betting office, Chas prevents, however, participate in the violent takeover. Chas still interferes, and he is devastated and finds his apartment beaten. Chas shoots one of the attackers and packs his suitcase in a hurry to flee abroad. At the station he overhears from an empty apartment, and decides to instead go underground there. Under the new name Johnny Dean he arises in the Urbanization ago: Turner, an inaccessible, former rock star who lives with two women, Pherber and Lucy, along ménage à trois in a. Chas is intimate with the androgynous Pherber, taking into account aspects of bisexuality are suggested. After administration of hallucinogenic mushrooms Chas starts a relationship with Lucy, shoots at Turner and will be tracked by Flowers men who kidnap him at the end of the film.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was released by Warner Bros. Records on September 19, 1970 The album contains pieces of Mick Jagger, Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, The Last Poets, Buffy Sainte -Marie and Merry Clayton. :