Story of movie The Running Jumping %26 Standing Still Film :
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film is a 1959 British sketch comedy short film directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers, in collaboration with Bruce Lacey. The film was released in 1959.
| The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film | |
|---|---|
Title card | |
| Directed by | Dick Lester Peter Sellers |
| Produced by | Peter Sellers |
| Screenplay by | Spike Milligan Peter Sellers Mario Fabrizi Dick Lester |
| Story by | Peter Sellers |
| Starring | Peter Sellers Spike Milligan |
| Music by | Dick Lester |
| Cinematography | Dick Lester |
| Edited by | Dick Lester Peter Sellers |
Production company | Peter Sellers Productions |
| Distributed by | British Lion Films |
Release date | November 1959 |
Running time | 11 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £70 |
It was filmed over two Sundays in 1959, at a cost of around £70 (including £5 for the rental of a field).
It was nominated for an Academy Award, but did not win. It was a favourite of The Beatles, which led to Lester being hired to direct A Hard Day's Night and then Help!, in which Lacey makes a guest appearance as George Harrison's gardener in the opening sequence.
The short film has been made available as a special feature on several home video releases of A Hard Day's Night. It is also featured in The Unknown Peter Sellers and a BFI released collection of rarely-seen films from Bruce Lacey's career entitled The Lacey Rituals. It is also included as a special feature of the Studio Canal issue of I'm All Right Jack
Screenplay
- Richard Lester
- Peter Sellers
- Spike Milligan
- Mario Fabrizi
- Bruce Lacey
- David Lodge
- Leo McKern
- Norman Rossington
- Graham Stark
BFI Screenonline concluded that the film's lasting legacy "was its influence (as part of Milligan's overall body of work) on British comedy in general, and on Monty Python's Flying Circus (BBC, 1969-74) in particular. This is evident not only in its surreal humour, but in the way that elements of one routine are threaded through subsequent scenes, transcending the stand-alone sketch form - a tactic subsequently favoured by the Python team"; and Empire magazine called it "Sublime slapstick surrealism."
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