Tommy (1975 film)

Tommy is a 1975 British musical fantasy film based upon The Whos 1969 rock opera album Tommy. It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a starstudded cast, including the band members themselves most notably, lead singer Roger Daltrey, who plays the title role. The other cast members include AnnMargret, Oliver Reed, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Elton John, Arthur Brown, and Jack Nicholson.

The film opens with a montage of the honeymoon of Royal Air Force Group Captain Walker Robert Powell and his wife, Nora AnnMargret. When his leave ends, Walker reluctantly farewells his nowpregnant wife, and returns to fight in World War II as a bomber pilot, but his aircraft is shot down somewhere over Europe. He is listed as Missing In Action Captain Walker and is presumed dead, although unknown to his family the badly burned Walker is in fact a prisoner of war. Meanwhile, back in England, Nora is overwhelmed by the news of her husbands disappearance she goes into labour and gives birth to a son, Tommy, on VE Day Its a Boy.Five years later, with Capt. Walker still missing, presumed dead, Nora has begun a new relationship with Frank Oliver Reed, whom she has met at a holiday camp. Tommy looks up to his Uncle Frank and expresses his desires to run his own camp some day Bernies Holiday Camp. Nora and Frank dream of their future Fiftyone but late that evening, Captain Walker returns unexpectedly, surprising Frank and Nora in bed. Not realising who the intruder is, Frank struggles with Capt. Walker then strikes him with the bedside lamp, accidentally killing him. At this point they discover to their horror that the dead man is Capt. Walker, and that Tommy who had followed his father into the room has witnessed everything. Panicking, they frantically plead with Tommy, insisting that he saw and heard nothing, and must tell nobody about it. This, combined with the trauma of his fathers sudden and violent death, sends Tommy into a trancelike fugue state, Amazing Journey in which he cannot to see, hear or speak. Unable to reach him, Nora and Frank lament Tommys predicament, and fear for his soul Christmas. ........

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