Filmed amongst the ruins of the Crystal Palace Gardens The Pleasure Garden tells of the efforts of Colonel Pall to suppress romance and free expression and his battle against the Fairy Godmother who is a champion of lovers artists and the Pleasure Principle. Starring British stalwarts John Le Mesurier and Hatti Jacques the film won the Prix de Fantasie Poetique at the Cannes Film Festival of 1954.
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Fifties bohemia translated onto the big screen in a plea for free expression by poet James Broughton, filmed in the ruins of Crystal Palace in South London. Hattie Jacques and Lindsay Anderson play a couple whose public displays of affection incur the wrath of the Minister of Public Behaviour (John Le Mesurier).
A puritanical Minister of Public Behaviour attempts to keep a tight reign on the strangers who come to a crumbling public park to act out their basest fantasies. His attempts to arrest them and turn the park into a cemetery are hampered by the impish tricks of a fat, hairy godmother who tries to defend the strangers' pleasure-seeking antics. Avant-garde filmmaker James Broughton won a prize for this satiric fairy tale at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. The production was filmed in the ruined gardens of the Crystal Palace in London.
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