8-525: Little Malcolm is a 1974 British comedy drama film directed by Stuart Cooper and starring John Hurt . It is based on David Halliwell 's stage play Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs . The play's full name is used as the film title on the BFI Flipside 2011 DVD release. Malcolm Scrawdyke, a fascist political figure, plots revenge against the college that expelled him by forming
16-885: A gold medal at the Atlanta Film Festival in August 1974. It was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival , where it won the Silver Bear . In 2011, the British Film Institute released the film on DVD as part of their flipside strand. Comedy drama film Comedy drama , also known by the portmanteau dramedy , is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and drama . In films, serious dramatic themes (such as death, illness, etc.) are dealt with realism and subtlety, while preserving
24-468: A humorous tenor. In television, modern scripted comedy dramas tend to have more humour integrated into the story than the comic relief common in drama series but usually contain a lower joke rate than sitcoms . In the very influential Greek theatre , plays were considered comedies or tragedies. This concept even influenced Roman theatre and theatre of the Hellenistic period . Theatre of that era
32-640: A pivotal scene. The soundtrack also featured the band Harpoon singing "Not With You". Once the Beatles' partnership had been formally dissolved, in January 1975, the film received a brief run in London's West End. In February 1983, Harrison donated his personal copy of Little Malcolm to a New York-based company for screening at a local film festival. After what Cooper described as an "incredible" reception at Berlin for "this very British film", Little Malcolm won
40-519: A rise in film and television works that could be described as comedy-dramas. The term is a translation from the French "comédie dramatique". The portmanteau "dramedy" came to be in the 1980s. In January 2022, Rafael Abreu, writing for the StudioBinder filmmaking blog, defined this genre as follows: A dramedy is a movie or program that balances the elements of a drama and a comedy. Also known as
48-606: A very long time to extract Little Malcolm from the official receivers", adding that its entry in the Berlin festival was only possible because the festival was an artistic forum and not finance-related. The film was shot primarily in Lancashire , in the north of England, during February and March 1973. Harrison supplied incidental music for the soundtrack and, after being introduced to the duo Splinter by their manager Mal Evans , produced their song "Lonely Man" for inclusion in
56-541: Is thought to have long-lasting influence, even in modern narrative works. Even today, works are often classified into two broad buckets, dramas and comedies. For instance, many awards that recognize achievements in film and television today, such as the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards segregate several award categories into these two classifications. The 20th century saw
64-542: The Party of Dynamic Erection, a right-wing political movement, with three acolytes. An Apple Films project, Little Malcolm was the first feature film executive produced by former Beatle George Harrison . Like many of Apple 's film and recording projects, production on Little Malcolm was then jeopardised by lawsuits pertaining to Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr 's severing of ties with manager Allen Klein . Speaking in 2011, Cooper said that Harrison "fought for
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