The Greeneyed Elephant
1960 film
- 15 August 1960 (1960-08-15)
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The Greeneyed Elephant (Danish: Elefanter på loftet) is a 1960 Danish family film directed by Peter Guildbrassen and starring Dirch Passer.[1]
Premise
Two aspiring actresses stumble upon an ancient Aztec elephant sculpture that can be used to transfer their body into the other. Based on the novel Turnabout(1931) by Thorne Smith.
Cast
- Dirch Passer - Dennis
- Naura Hayden - Sally Fitzpatrik
- Delphi Lawrence - Lisa
- Ove Sprogøe - Tolderen
- Bjørn Watt-Boolsen - Tom
- Kirsten Passer - Mrs. Kelly
- Phil Baker - Arthur Croft
- Avi Sagild - Sekretær
- Grethe Sønck - Sangerinde
- Peer Guldbrandsen - Instruktøren / fortælleren (voice) (uncredited)
- Gitte Müller - Scriptgirl (uncredited)
Production
The film is in fact a TV pilot that became a feature film.[2]
Reception
The film is seen as the Danish example of the trope that is body swapping.[3] As the other two films made by Pink in Denmark, The Green-Eyed Elephant offers no erotic content and was very poorly received by Danish critics[4]
See also
- Reptilicus, another film written by Pink and starring Passer
References
- ^ "The Green-Eyed Elephant". www.dfi.dk. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
- ^ Stewardson, Christopher (6 February 2021). "In Defence of Reptilicus". Our Culture. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
- ^ Conaway, Evan (10 January 2022). "Freaky (2020)". Movie Reviews by a Mook. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
- ^ Stevenson, Jack (2 September 2015). Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1259-1.
External links
- The Greeneyed Elephant at IMDb
- Film presentation on Troma website
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Films produced by Sidney W. Pink
- Bwana Devil (1952)
- The Twonky (1953)
- I Was a Burlesque Queen (1953)
- Flame Over Vietnam (1957)
- The Angry Red Planet (1959)
- The Greeneyed Elephant (1960)
- Reptilicus (1961)
- Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)
- The Castilian (1963)
- Pyro... The Thing Without a Face (1964)
- Finger on the Trigger (1965)
- La Llamada (1965)
- The Drums of Tabu (1966)
- Seven Vengeful Women (1966)
- The Fickle Finger of Fate (1967)
- The Treasure of Makuba (1967)
- A Witch Without a Broom (1967)
- The Fickle Finger of Fate (1967)
- The Christmas Kid (1967)
- Operation Delilah (1967)
- The Vengeance of Pancho Villa (1967)
- Bang Bang Kid (1967)
- Madigan's Millions (1968)
- 1001 Nights (1968)
- The Emerald of Artatama (1969)
- A Candidate for a Killing (1969)
- The Man from O.R.G.Y. (1970)
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