The
Committee is a 1968 film Directed by Peter Sykes and staring Paul
(Manfred Mann) Jones. The film features a superb score by Pink Floyd,
and even The Crazy World of Arther Brown make an appearance. In the
film Paul Jones who is unnamed is picked up and given a lift in a
car. The driver of the car pulls over because he does not like the sound
of the engine. When the driver is checking the engine Paul Jones slams
the bonnet of the car down on him decapitating his head. After a while
Paul Jones sews the drivers head back on. The driver wakes up and Paul
Jones informs the driver he does not want to drive with him anymore and
he should leave. A couple of years later Paul Jones is invited to join a committee. These
committee groups seem to exist to keep the system??? up and running,
but really seem to not do anything. Later Paul Jones encounters the
driver who gave him a lift a few years before. The driver does not seem
to recognise Jones or remember having his head cut of. Jones then asks
the man "are your teeth ok?" Jones then spends the rest of the film
talking with The Committee Director (Robert Lloyd) about his earlier
actions involving the car driver.
The
film is in black and white and is quite compelling. Take the sequence
early on in the film, when a number of suit and tie gentlemen are
walking through a building, accompanied by a 1st class Pink Floyd score.
The camera follows these men going to a meeting, intercut with other
images of old reel to reel computers and card index machines. The
musical score by Pink Floyd at this moment is a must and would not sound
out of place on Piper at the Gates of Dawn. After a very successful run
in The West End in 68, screenings of The Committee were almost non
existant. I won't pretend that I fully understood what was going on in
The Committee, but that is what makes the film interesting and as a
slice of 60s weirdness The Committee is definitely there.
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