Madcap comedy about a guy named Morgan (David Warner) trying to win back his ex-wife (Redgrave).Morgan has a unexplained "mental condition", as referred to in the film, and is obsessed with Marx and communism.
Redgrave is set to marry a "higher-class" gentleman, but Warner wants to break it up. He spends much of the movie jealously obsessing over Redgrave and her lover. There's some madcap comedic sequences of him speeding around town on a bike in a gorilla suit and crashing the wedding, which is funny.
What's so interesting about this 1966 British film is that the lead character here is a communist and communist ideas are spoken of highly by characters, and rather non-chalantly. In American films, pro-communist dialogue was still not heard of much during this time period, when anti-communist films such as "Pickup on South Street" and "The Manchurian Candidate" were being made.
The film was never released on VHS, but was released on DVD in 2005. The DVD has a few good special features including a few versions of the trailer.
Vanessa's role is more of a supporting one to Warner's Morgan, but her performance left an impression with many that year for her to be nominated for Best Actress Academy Award (losing to Elizabeth Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?").
Her sister Lynn Redgrave, also had a good year - her film "Georgy Girl" was a hit as well, and she too was nominated for Best Actress.
The official, UK title of this movie is Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment.
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