Michael Caine, moralist.

Nothing important: just saw a wonderful snippet of an interview with Michael Caine from 1967: Peter Whitehead’s Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London. Michael: “You see, we don’t want to get drunk, or go out–what is properly known as–womanizing until 2:00 in the morning, what we want is the freedom to do so should we wish. We don’t want a lot of rules and regulations. To me, the pubs closing at 11:00 pm and more expensive clubs keeping open later is the most condescending piece of class consciousness I’ve ever heard. It’s to keep the workers out of the pub so they’re not drunk and up late for work in the morning–this was the original idea of it for the munitions factories of the first World War.” He then objects to mini skirts and such, while Whitehead gives us footage of him primping for the cameras. Great stuff.

2 thoughts on “Michael Caine, moralist.”

  1. John, where did you find/see ‘Tonite let’s make love…’? It is not on Netflix. Almost anything Michael Caine did in the 1960s is worth watching, from ‘Get Carter’ through ‘Alfie’ to his wonderful Harry Palmer spy roles. He always gives great interview.

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