Monday Movie You May Have Never Heard Of: The Magic Christian

"The Magic Christian," a movie from 1969 is basically a comical tale of a very wealthy man named Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) who adopts a hobo to be his son (Ringo Starr) to help him with his social experiment of sorts: To see exactly what the common man will do for money.

While the plot isn't the finest and the title comes from a ship talked about in the movie and not much else, there is some gold to be found here. There are so many talented comity actors who really bring this film to life.  Think of a flick such as The Beatles' film Help! where the comical side of the fab for give the film life and a cult backing.

If the name of the film has rung a bell, but you cannot remember why, it's because a portion of the soundtrack is by Badfinger. Their album entitled "The Magic Christian" is the named because of their featured songs in the film and is considered one of their best albums they've ever put out. Not only do you have something to laugh at here, but you've some good tunes playing in the movie as well.

It's one of my favorite cult films of all time. Unfortunately, I've never seen this at any local video parlor, but it is online. If you can get this on netflix or online anywhere. I'd take a good look!