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((Short description|1966 British film by Daniel Petrie))
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((Infobox film
| name           = The Idol
| image          = File:The Idol (1966 film).jpg
| caption        = 
| director       = [[Daniel Petrie]]
| producer       = Leonard Lightstone<br/>[[Joseph E. Levine]] (executive producer)<br/>Robert Porter (associate producer)
| writer         = [[Ugo Liberatore]] (story)<br/>[[Millard Lampell]]
| narrator       =
| starring       = [[Michael Parks]]<br>[[Jennifer Jones]]
| music          = [[John Dankworth]]
| cinematography = [[Kenneth Higgins]]
| editing        = Jack Slade
| studio         = [[Embassy Pictures]]
| distributor    = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| released       = ((Film date|df=y|1966|8|10|U.S.))
| runtime        = 109 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = 
| gross          =
))

'''''The Idol''''' is a 1966 British [[drama film]] directed by [[Daniel Petrie]] and starring [[Jennifer Jones]], [[Michael Parks]], [[Jennifer Hilary]] and [[Guy Doleman]].<ref name="BFIsearch">((Cite web |title=The Idol |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150038675 |access-date=7 March 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search))</ref><ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-idol-v130210/cast-crew|title=The Idol (1966) - Daniel Petrie &#124; Cast and Crew &#124; AllMovie))</ref> Set during the [[Swinging Sixties]] in London, the plot entails a rebellious student who disrupts the lives of all around him, leading to disastrous consequences.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6acdb0aa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824030055/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6acdb0aa|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 August 2017|title=The Idol (1966)|website=BFI))</ref>

==Plot==
Marco, a young, arrogant art student, is friendly with Timothy, a medical student, and Sarah, Timothy's girl friend. Timothy is dominated by his wealthy and beautiful mother, Carol, who is divorcing her husband. There is an [[Oedipal]] undercurrent between mother and son, and Timothy is not happy that Carol plans to marry again. Nevertheless, as Carol continues to control his life, Timothy wishes to be more independent.

Marco finds a studio apartment, and Timothy pays the first two months' rent, planning to move in with his friend and switch from medicine to art. An angry Carol prevents the move, and Sarah, who has fallen in love with Marco, moves in instead.

During a party at her weekend cottage, Carol becomes furious when she finds Marco and Sarah kissing in Timothy's room, and she orders Marco from the house. Later, Timothy is involved in a pub brawl, and Marco defends him and brings him home unconscious. Carol is appreciative, and warms to him. Later at a bar, Marco and Carol dance, and it is clear the repressed Carol is attracted to him. Timothy looks on, uneasily.

On New Year's Eve, Marco arrives at Carol's house to accompany Timothy to a party. But Timothy had already left, and Marco is left alone with Carol. He seduces her, then scorns her in retaliation for his earlier humiliation at the cottage. He leaves for the party which is on a boat, and arrives drunk accompanied by a streetwalker. He hints broadly to Sarah of his conquest of Carol, which Timothy overhears. Anguished, Timothy runs up on deck and Marco stumbles after him. Timothy violently thrusts him away, but a woozy Marco falls into the water and drowns, despite Timothy's efforts to save him. Questioned by the police, Timothy refuses to reveal the cause of the fight. Thus, without his admitting to the actual provocation, it is determined that Marco drowned at Timothy's instigation. Carol, who has arrived during the questioning, reaches out to Timothy as he is being led away by the police, but he coldly turns away.

==Cast==
*[[Jennifer Jones]] as Carol
*[[Michael Parks]] as Marco
*[[John Leyton]] as Timothy
*[[Jennifer Hilary]] as Sarah
*[[Guy Doleman]] as Martin Livesey
*[[Natasha Pyne]] as Rosalind
*[[Jack Watson (actor)|Jack Watson]] as Police Inspector
*[[Jeremy Bulloch]] as Lewis
*[[Gordon Gostelow]] as Simon
*[[Priscilla Morgan]] as Rosie
*Edna Morris as Mrs. Muller
*[[Fanny Carby]] as barmaid
*[[Renée Houston]] as 1st woman at party
*[[Caroline Blakiston]] as 2nd woman at party

==Production==
[[Carlo Ponti]] originally sent Jennifer Jones a script written by [[Ugo Liberatore]] suggesting she appear in it alongside her son Robert Walker Jr, playing mother and son. However Jones was reluctant to play the mother of her own son and declined. Joseph E. Levine acquired the script, had it rewritten by an English writer and signed [[Kim Stanley]] to star. Three days before filming was to begin Stanley fell ill; the producers offered the role to Jones who accepted.<ref>Miss Jones Looks at Love in London BY STEPHEN WATTS LONDON. ''New York Times'' 5 Dec 1965: X13.</ref>

[[Daniel Petrie]] had earlier directed the 1961 film ''[[A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film)|A Raisin in the Sun]]''.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b3e1eb4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411163142/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b3e1eb4|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 April 2016|title=A Raisin in the Sun (1961)|website=BFI))</ref> This Jennifer Jones film was rarely aired on TV. This was the first film Jones made after her husband [[David O. Selznick]] died the previous year. It was mostly shot in London.<ref>A Change in Directions, Smith, Cecil. ''Los Angeles Times'' 29 Aug 1977: f1.</ref>

==Music==
The soundtrack by [[John Dankworth]] includes "The Idol," "Empty Arms and Empty Heart," "The Party" and others.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/John-Dankworth-The-Idol-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/release/4005505|title=John Dankworth - The Idol (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)|website=Discogs))</ref> During the seduction scene, Marco plays a record of [[Vivaldi]]'s "Winter" from ''[[The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)|The Four Seasons]]''.

== Critical reception ==
''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "Gloomy psychological melodrama with meaningful undertones attached to a banal and superficial script which leaves many problems unsolved. The mother-son relationship, for example, is never explored in any detail, although it is central to the film. Nor does the script allow the cast much opportunity to be convincing since characterisation seems to be motivated solely by the plot. The London locations are indifferently shot, and even John Dankworth's music fails to enliven the proceedings."<ref>((Cite journal |date=1 January 1966 |title=The Idol |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305826652/FEC2C1ED06BD46EFPQ/2 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=33 |issue=384 |pages=170 |via=ProQuest))</ref>

''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote: "The Leonard Lightstone production is burdened with frequent static in its development of characters and a rambling narrative further reduces dramatic impact.&nbsp;... Lightstone has given impressive physical backing to his production, capturing the feeling of London, which [[Kenneth Higgins|Ken Higgins]] limns in his sensitive photography, but characters lack much interest."<ref>((Cite journal |date=3 August 1966 |title=The Idol |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1017136385/9517704015814FFDPQ/13 |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |volume=243 |issue=11 |pages=6 |via=ProQuest))</ref>

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*((IMDb title|0060533))
*[https://www.reelstreets.com/films/idol-the/ ''The Idol''] then-and-now location photographs at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]

((Daniel Petrie))

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