The thing I took from this movie, is that it is the REFLECTION of a man's life. He started out successful and happy with a good family and many friends. As he got to EACH pool, something new was revealed about him and his character. At the end, he arrives to an empty home. Obviously, he hurt his family and betrayed the one's he loved. Moral of story: Cherish your loved ones and don't do them wrong, or you may find yourself alone one day.
@Bandtrip50 Too many people in the world now. All that static going about. Stars need to lock themselves away especially because of people like Mark Chapman. Lennon said he liked to just walk around Manhatten cos he felt safe and anonymous : (
@Noodles37UK There are so many rumors about John Lennon's murder. Some feel Lennon was murdered by the CIA due to his anti-war position. Who knows? The military industrial complex makes billions with their wars. (See President Eisenhower's farewell
address on utube he warned about this to the American people)
By the way, I was one of the lucky few in 1965 that was able to see all 4 Beatles in person at Chavez Ravine (Dodger Stadium)
@future21st You can see another video here in You Tube named "Marvin Hamlisch Music Score from THE SWIMMER (1968)" posted by "fanfaremusic". He also posted in this video that: "The entire music score was published by FSM (film score monthly) label on CD."
I didn't know that somebody made a movie based on this John Cheever short story!
I was exposed to this author during my years at Suffolk Community College. His short stories leave you with a quality I can't quite describe: somewhere between melancholy and irony.
I watched this film yesterday with my university film society.
It was polarizing. Not everybody liked it. But not a SINGLE PERSON could have said they've seen anything like it, or that it was unoriginal, or that it was derivative.
This was Marvin Hamlish's first and only movie score; his focus was mainly Broadway, and collaboration on songs with Burt Bacharach, and other greats! Very moving musical soundrtack.
UGH, I loved the short story and when I heard it was a movie too I checked it out, but holy crap, did I overestimate the shittiness of 60's movie marketing.
@jsbach15 well there are different types of shitty movie making per different decades...this one just SCREAMS everything one would associate with those..."techniques" of the time. Its a shame, because I really do like the story itself.
@AutumnDevi How do you think "techniques" have come into today's film making? Those "techniques'' had to be tried, and some were better than others. The pathos of the story wasn't lost.
Hell yeah, Ned! Sport that tight swimsuit and bulge in their uptight suburban snob faces! It might actually get more of a reaction TODAY than it did in 1966-1968, because men's swimsuits now are so damn long and baggy, all the way down to the knees, that it must be like swimming in long pants.
I'm serrious here. He's lost the house, the kids, his self respect, his pride, his whole life. Everything he holds dear is gone. But my god, he still had that marvelous ass. Ass is an very importsant thing. Even a straighty man like me realizes the importance of a nice ass and he has a nice ass.
Just rediscovered this movie over the weekend and I have been pondering it mulling it over in my mind. In the scene where he is being polite with his Nudist friends by deferring to their ways and going nude for a bit while he is visiting with them. He's lost so much and in so much pain but you know the thing that can really help him turn it around something very important to still possess in this crazy world. Something he's not yet lost?
very much like my life except for the pool, and the swimming trunks, and the slim body, and rich friends and not being winded walking from house to house, but yes, very similar of my story. But my story would be called the crawler.
Goddamn, do you people have to make a fucking judgment about every goddamn thing you see? Do you have to catagorize it one way or another? It that how you get to feel like you have some control over your life....
They must have played this five or six times inside of a year late on Saturday night when I was a kid in San Antonio. It was very hard for me to understand then, so I appreciated the repeated screenings.
@ezramead Same here in Hamilton, Ontario--it was played 5 or 6 times a year and we could never understand much of it. Now that we are in our mid-50's, much more is clear!
Probably too disturbing for the average suburban moron, but a masterpiece nonetheless...The 60s had some great self-examination going on aside from all the hedonism
Great film, regardless of what you might take away from the trailer. It's all here: wealth vs contentment, youth vs the passage of time, dreams vs reality. In the short story by Cheever, the pools become colder and increasingly hard to swim. In the movie, the welcomes Lancaster's character receives at each pool become less and less warm, and by the time he reaches the last pool, you begin to sense that something has gone terribly wrong. Haunting ending. Every man over 40 should see it.
@scorzeny45 Wow, are you ever stupid! "[B]urt must have needed the money to do this filth"? Then you betray your foolishness by admitting, through your parting CAPITALIZED inanity that you have never even scene this film! HAA!! You and your fellow teabaggers are a riot!! Fright Wing moron!
Actually, if anything it's an ANTI-LIBERAL film.... As it the movie progresses it is revealed that Ed Merrill had 'it all' a wife, and family, extravagant house, rich... but he was a womanizer, cheated constantly, threw it all away due to an excessive lifestyle. That's what happens when you don't value the family, are emotionally irresponsible, party too much, and don't pay off your debts. REGARDLESS it's an AMAZING FILM.
Sigh. Asscoma, there is nothing "liberal" about womanizing, cheating, and excess. Those things have no ideological loyalties.
One of the most insane things about this "liberal/conservative" nonsense is that people have come to conflate politics with lifestyle. While they CAN be related, they're two different things.
but it is sad that he comes back to the brokendown wreck of his home, even through those that he met on his journey didn't have the courtesy to tell him so.
New England/York- who'd have them? New York Times theatrical critics, suck on my bollocking stump.
I think some of them didn't know, at least the ones further at at the start of the film, then the ones that did knew (the closer he got to his home) sort of treated him like dirt.
You'll have to pardon me if I have the details wrong, I haven't seen the film in years.
I saw this movie at least twenty years ago and loved it. This is the first time I've seen anything of it since then. Thanks for uploading the trailer.
This movie that I see in television since long years ago, are one the saddest that I have seen in all my life, the solitude and the decadence reflected in his house at the end,,,,,,terrible!!!!!
American Dream's materialism assaulted by the failure to recognize one's own human frailties. The film is a pointed attack on the smugness of upper middle class Americans generally and thier self-centered lifestyle that Ned epitomizes by his extreme individualism and even eccentric behaviours. The ending I find the most powerful: a "family" man confronts the reality of his broken family and is shut out from his own home to swim in the cold outer world.
I've only seen a few of Frank Perry's movies, but it seems like he could do not wrong. Although, some of the editing in his films wasn't always the greatest, I think that can be overlooked. So far, this movie and Last Summer are my favorites.
Ok. I get the theme and story behind it. But this movie is awful. The acting is horrendous, the cuts are awful, Burt belly flops every time he jumps in a pool. Oh, and he totally wants to sleep with the girl who used to baby sit his children. Give me a break. This movie is awful. Except for the hotdog stand scene. That was quite incredible.
Well, i'd want to sleep with the girl who babysits his children! and the hotdog scene was a very good scene, but i like all this movie. it is arty, but a good arty in my opinion. burt lancaster was in amazing shape for a 55 year old too! it's a different film, and he gives a really good performance. a very sad film as well. i imagined him having a close-nervous breakdown, as he seems so aloof and out of place with everybody he meets.
Its a bit scary to think it only takes a combination of cruel knocks and a bit of misfortune for any of us to possibly end up like Lancaster's character running around in a pair of swimming trunks !
this is a great film. this and pretty poison are often over-looked to the point of being nearly forgotten. i hope this trailer leads many movie fans to seek this film out.
Excuse me, do you think it might be possible for you to post some scenes of the movie? I am really interested but is very difficult to get this kind of film nowadays...
it would probably be helpful to read the short story first before seeing the movie.the movie is very complex,and is as tragic as any Shakespeare play.i agree that Burt Lancaster was an actor that took chances.the movie was a flop,not surprising since it took about 2 years to be released.a notable appearance by Janice Rule,a fine actress,in a scene shot separate from the rest of the film.
This is far from a soaper but the preview was made to attract a wide audience. The viewer can not be lazy minded and the film will mostly appeal to adults. A limited life experience due to youthfulness or being cloistered will preclude one from relating to the film's message which is explained in the sad ending. Lancaster at his best with a brilliant performance and the final scene haunts me to this day. A must see for the serious film fan.
NO, if you look at this film lightly and superficially, it will feel like a low point in his career, but it was an intimate glimpse of his brilliance. Lancaster was an original and he would not limit himself to the cookie cutter roles that he would be offered.. He was an original American artist. I found him strange and idiosyncratic at times, yet intense and very sensual, He had an elegant move, athletic and graceful.. and when he spoke to a woman on screen.. well, she was the only one.
fallenwillrise: Allow me to elaborate on what others have said--
Trust me, this movie is NOT a soap. The trailer might make it look like one, but you know how misleading those can be.
This movie, rather, is a strange, unsettling dip into the surreal. It starts out seeming sort of normal, but as the film goes on it becomes more and more obvious that SOMETHING is not right. It plays games with your perception of reality---a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Give it a shot.
I saw a little piece of it when I was around 10 or twelve and for some unexplained reason.. always remembered it. I have been searching/ reading more about it. Why, I wonder is it haunting to you? I think Lancaster was brilliant in many ways
"A motion picture that breaks new ground" This film was so well made. The script, The music, the acting, the photography. It's hard for me to say this but Bert's character is like representing the Mascline in every man. I see him in me and in lots of men. I have had a women problem. I have had an ego problem. Come on men lets treat the feminine with more respect!! "When you talk about The Swimmer will you talk about yourself?" Hmmm... I've never heard anyone talk that before"
It can be possible a way to you send me this movie for air mail? Is impossible find this movie without internet, can you do me that BIG favor in away?
It works on soooo many levels. It will stay with you forever. It crept up on me as a kid and will alway be with. See also The Wicker Man - equally devastating.........but very different.
Glad to see so many Swimmer fans. Although I have some issues with the film, they are mainly ones of production design -- the material called for a director with a little more auteur in his blood than Frank Perry. But Lancaster's performance is very real and deeply moving, one of his best.
One of the most fascinating American films of the 1960s or any decade, subject to an almost endless variety of interpretations. Recommended viewing for any cinema student.
This film would be a good teaching tool for sociology, psycology and literature classes, and probably others. I have fond memories of the 60's era, my formative years, and this makes it even better. I would recommend The Swimmer for anyone who likes to think, and will enjoy watching a film over and over to try for the meaning of it. I read somewhere that Alec Baldwin is considering a re-make, good luck with that, it's a tough act to follow.
I think this artistic success was a mistake though, they couldn't have planned the feelings that are evoked by this. Similar to Bogart's Casa Blanca, which was just a studio production film, squeezed between others in a hectic schedule, this film exceeded expectations in contemporary judgement only, as those in the day were dissappointed with it.
What is astonishing is how the story rises so far above the obvious technical flaws of 1960's film making. It is based upon one of John Cheever's short stories, originally appearing in New Yorker magazine in the early 60's. John Cheever actually appears briefly as an extra in one of the pool scenes. But this movie leaves the short story so far behind, with more depth and nuance and unanswered questions than could possibly be put to print.
The making of this film is an interesting story in itself. There were two directors, and one segment was filmed in California out of necessity, a distraction when palm trees are clearly visible when the setting is supposed to be a new england state. Toward the end of filming, the financing ran out and Burt himself paid for the finish as the studio thought correctly this film would be a money loser.
I was just a boy when I saw this on the late nite telivision, I thought it was about where I lived in Cocoa beach.lol I saw the movie again later in life and it made me so sad.
A most remarkable American film, even in the sixties where experimentaion was as its height. I first saw it in black-and-white(in 1968)and found it intensely mind-probing, personally emotional,and clearly illustrated the absurd illusions of the bourgeois. similar to a fillini movie but not a parody. Needless to say it didn't make it commercially..so what's new?
This is a powerful drama with a haunting theme,makes you think of times gone by and the way things change as life moves from one stage to another.Beautifully acted and filmed in a poetic way with lots of scenic shots of nature.The kind of movie that draws you into the character as you watch it.Burt Lancaster was one of a kind.A classic.
Lancaster as usual gives only 100%, one of the greatest Actors Hollywood ever produced, what a body at 55 also. This film is unique & absorbing,only saw it recently
"An exciting different film." "When you talk about The Swimmer will you talk about yourself?" "I'm a very special human being." where is the thunderstorm? O.o
I also meant to say, don't take your loved ones for granted.
cayetanohawaii 1 month ago 13
The thing I took from this movie, is that it is the REFLECTION of a man's life. He started out successful and happy with a good family and many friends. As he got to EACH pool, something new was revealed about him and his character. At the end, he arrives to an empty home. Obviously, he hurt his family and betrayed the one's he loved. Moral of story: Cherish your loved ones and don't do them wrong, or you may find yourself alone one day.
cayetanohawaii 1 month ago 34
Did anyone notice Joan Rivers with her natural face in the film?
She looks so innocent in the movie!
Bandtrip50 2 months ago 33
I never heard of this movie. I enjoyed it.!Burt Lancaster looked great and in his 50's wow!
I just wish more information about his life was revealed. One has to guess but that in itself is fun.
Sounds like the character was quite a playboy that's what I got out of the film.
Great photography!
Bandtrip50 2 months ago 36
Absolutely brilliant movie.
MrEvilGuy 3 months ago 69
Regarding this film, 3 people LOVED IT, they just don't realise it.
brad25m 3 months ago 37
When you dislike The Swimmer's trailer, are you disliking...yourself?
crazedmongoose03 3 months ago 37
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Great! I like this film very much! Thanks for posting it!
franzkafka1010 3 months ago 32
AMAZING!
SKOTP69 3 months ago 41
So there is a swimmer, and he swims? I like to swim too. I will watch this.
Shojahan 3 months ago 39
Late '60s were weird. That's why they're my favorites lol
Noodles37UK 3 months ago 39
@Noodles37UK I liked that the United States was less crowded.
Why they opened the gates this wide is beyond me? Sucks.
Bandtrip50 2 months ago 2
@Bandtrip50 Yeah, life was simpler then. Same with the UK. You knew where you stood. NOT so weird after all lol
Noodles37UK 2 months ago
@Noodles37UK On one of our American TV shows recently, a lady from England was on and described how she as a teenager in England
walked up to Paul McCartney's house back in the mid 1960's rang the bell and Paul McCartney himself
came to the gate! Imagine that happening today? LOL Crazy!
Bandtrip50 2 months ago
@Bandtrip50 Too many people in the world now. All that static going about. Stars need to lock themselves away especially because of people like Mark Chapman. Lennon said he liked to just walk around Manhatten cos he felt safe and anonymous : (
Noodles37UK 2 months ago
@Noodles37UK There are so many rumors about John Lennon's murder. Some feel Lennon was murdered by the CIA due to his anti-war position. Who knows? The military industrial complex makes billions with their wars. (See President Eisenhower's farewell
address on utube he warned about this to the American people)
By the way, I was one of the lucky few in 1965 that was able to see all 4 Beatles in person at Chavez Ravine (Dodger Stadium)
VERY EXCITING DAY!
Bandtrip50 1 month ago
I was going to make a joke about this, then I realized I would just be making fun of myself
TheSkwrk 4 months ago 83
Love to know where i can get the music to the film
future21st 5 months ago 39
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@future21st You can see another video here in You Tube named "Marvin Hamlisch Music Score from THE SWIMMER (1968)" posted by "fanfaremusic". He also posted in this video that: "The entire music score was published by FSM (film score monthly) label on CD."
franzkafka1010 3 months ago 34
1:04--THAT'S DISGUSTING!!!
MSGSlayer1 5 months ago
Holy Crap! That's Joan Rivers getting hit on by Burt!
spinmonkey4401 5 months ago 7
I didn't know that somebody made a movie based on this John Cheever short story!
I was exposed to this author during my years at Suffolk Community College. His short stories leave you with a quality I can't quite describe: somewhere between melancholy and irony.
EstelleVEdwards 5 months ago 8
My grandma is Janet landguard:)
TheFishncrew 6 months ago
Thanks for the trailer.
TheMarcio2014 6 months ago 2
Janice Rule, was a beautiful and great in movies.
TheMarcio2014 6 months ago
Great! I like this film very much! Thanks for posting it!
franzkafka1010 6 months ago
great movie and great soundtrack! i miss and yearn those kind of movies instead of shitty cgi's
boralioglu 7 months ago in playlist trailers 3
I watched this film yesterday with my university film society.
It was polarizing. Not everybody liked it. But not a SINGLE PERSON could have said they've seen anything like it, or that it was unoriginal, or that it was derivative.
And that's very rare for a movie.
crazedmongoose2003 9 months ago 4
Great movie, great performance. And Joan Rivers looks older her than she does today.
varrick1226 9 months ago 5
BEST MOVIE EVAR!
ERiKAFAiLs 9 months ago 4
WOW! Joan Rivers with her ORIGINAL face!!!
qqrk1372 9 months ago 4
Looks strange, but strange is far better than normal.
retread01 9 months ago 5
Joan Rivers looks younger now than she did in this movie in 1966 !
Oculuscupitumamo1 10 months ago 3
I love this movie. Possibly for all the wrong reasons. I just thought it was an absolute pisser.
shutin35 11 months ago 3
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Dumbest movie ever made. And for the people that like it...
why isn't ever on TV? because it's the dumbest movie ever made....
1701CaptainKirk 11 months ago
Why was he gone so long. Why didnt he know he was gone for so long?
heatherandpaul2 11 months ago 2
@heatherandpaul2 symbolism?
ihroch 11 months ago
@heatherandpaul2 Thats exactly the question I was intending to ask!
AlyMissRose 10 months ago
@heatherandpaul2 You're a Rand Paul fan, too?
Grambino2012 8 months ago
Dammit, woman...when Burt Lancaster tells you that you loved it, you agree!
zeppelinesque 11 months ago 6
@zeppelinesque LMFAO!
jerzeyrunnerflash 11 months ago
I love this movie.
ilovety65 1 year ago 5
This was Marvin Hamlish's first and only movie score; his focus was mainly Broadway, and collaboration on songs with Burt Bacharach, and other greats! Very moving musical soundrtack.
jsbach15 1 year ago 3
UGH, I loved the short story and when I heard it was a movie too I checked it out, but holy crap, did I overestimate the shittiness of 60's movie marketing.
AutumnDevi 1 year ago
@AutumnDevi Really? Well then, 21st century movies, music, celebrities "marketing" really exceeds the 60s then!
jsbach15 1 year ago
@jsbach15 well there are different types of shitty movie making per different decades...this one just SCREAMS everything one would associate with those..."techniques" of the time. Its a shame, because I really do like the story itself.
AutumnDevi 1 year ago
@AutumnDevi How do you think "techniques" have come into today's film making? Those "techniques'' had to be tried, and some were better than others. The pathos of the story wasn't lost.
jsbach15 1 year ago 4
they needed an excuse to get Burt in a swimsuit!!! haha
I've seen the movie but all I can remember is Burt running all over the place like a crazy man with the blonde.
Marva2552 1 year ago
Great! I like this film very much! Thanks for posting it!
franzkafka1010 1 year ago 4
i enjoyed this but my ex girlfreind was like, "nothing happens & he swims home to a locked house"
geogodley 1 year ago
@geogodley She sounds very deep.
mediamadman747 1 year ago
@geogodley She has no insight into life. Perhaps she will as she gets older/ Perhaps she never will. Sad.
jsbach15 1 year ago
Underrated movie. I saw this in my high school film class and never forgot it.
swami1 1 year ago 7
Hell yeah, Ned! Sport that tight swimsuit and bulge in their uptight suburban snob faces! It might actually get more of a reaction TODAY than it did in 1966-1968, because men's swimsuits now are so damn long and baggy, all the way down to the knees, that it must be like swimming in long pants.
00RockyAngel00 1 year ago 3
Wow, he is 55 in here, my age now. I recall From Here to Eternity... and many more of his films. But I have never seen this one.
eijigosen 1 year ago 4
"Home is where the heart is". Ask any salmon, or just follow Burt Lancaster in "The Swimmer", as he searches his own out, on "his" way home.
richventures 1 year ago 7
Takes guts to do an entire movie in a swimsuit, let alone when you're in your 50s.
joeparkson 1 year ago 95
Jewish Joan Rivers ruined the movie!
TakeAShowerStinky 1 year ago
poor pathetic boob. burt lancaster was almost as bad as this guy in real life
rich people suck!
atfatw 1 year ago
@atfatw You're dumber than you look.... and I can't even see you!
grouchyguy 1 year ago
@reallyreallydumbguy you are funny but your face beat ya to it!!! hahahahaha
atfatw 1 year ago
@atfatw poor people suck more.
plutoplatters 1 year ago
Amazing film, its now on my favorites list
unitron 1 year ago 5
I'm serrious here. He's lost the house, the kids, his self respect, his pride, his whole life. Everything he holds dear is gone. But my god, he still had that marvelous ass. Ass is an very importsant thing. Even a straighty man like me realizes the importance of a nice ass and he has a nice ass.
clarencecmcgee 1 year ago
Just rediscovered this movie over the weekend and I have been pondering it mulling it over in my mind. In the scene where he is being polite with his Nudist friends by deferring to their ways and going nude for a bit while he is visiting with them. He's lost so much and in so much pain but you know the thing that can really help him turn it around something very important to still possess in this crazy world. Something he's not yet lost?
. That magnificent ass on the man.
clarencecmcgee 1 year ago
You've got to love a big movie without a happy ending.
blind51de 1 year ago 3
very much like my life except for the pool, and the swimming trunks, and the slim body, and rich friends and not being winded walking from house to house, but yes, very similar of my story. But my story would be called the crawler.
lunchmeat400 1 year ago
mike, the world changes fast now
ezramead 1 year ago
1:49 Can we talk?
nostalgiajunkie70 1 year ago
Goddamn, do you people have to make a fucking judgment about every goddamn thing you see? Do you have to catagorize it one way or another? It that how you get to feel like you have some control over your life....
shakestheground 1 year ago
Burt must of had fun making this movie, he hardly wears clothes lol
toplaycool19 1 year ago
They must have played this five or six times inside of a year late on Saturday night when I was a kid in San Antonio. It was very hard for me to understand then, so I appreciated the repeated screenings.
ezramead 1 year ago
@ezramead Same here in Hamilton, Ontario--it was played 5 or 6 times a year and we could never understand much of it. Now that we are in our mid-50's, much more is clear!
Great movie!
mikefastener 1 year ago
I was too young to understand the message behind this movie, then. I fully understand, now. 10+ stars!
jsbach15 1 year ago 2
Probably too disturbing for the average suburban moron, but a masterpiece nonetheless...The 60s had some great self-examination going on aside from all the hedonism
MKUltra3 1 year ago
Great film, regardless of what you might take away from the trailer. It's all here: wealth vs contentment, youth vs the passage of time, dreams vs reality. In the short story by Cheever, the pools become colder and increasingly hard to swim. In the movie, the welcomes Lancaster's character receives at each pool become less and less warm, and by the time he reaches the last pool, you begin to sense that something has gone terribly wrong. Haunting ending. Every man over 40 should see it.
mythcrusher 2 years ago 2
Anyone know if Bill Fiore in this movie is the same as William Fiori who went to CW Post College around 1960?
zippyman818 2 years ago
A great film!
Wimseys 2 years ago
looks like a shitty film, but the 60s looked alot like now
KhyberBoy09 2 years ago
burt must have needed the money to do this filth.Was that blond the jewish comedian joan rivers? APPEARS TO BE A VERY LEFTWING LIBERAL 60S FILM.
scorzeny45 2 years ago
@scorzeny45 Wow, are you ever stupid! "[B]urt must have needed the money to do this filth"? Then you betray your foolishness by admitting, through your parting CAPITALIZED inanity that you have never even scene this film! HAA!! You and your fellow teabaggers are a riot!! Fright Wing moron!
strummeresque 2 years ago 3
Actually, if anything it's an ANTI-LIBERAL film.... As it the movie progresses it is revealed that Ed Merrill had 'it all' a wife, and family, extravagant house, rich... but he was a womanizer, cheated constantly, threw it all away due to an excessive lifestyle. That's what happens when you don't value the family, are emotionally irresponsible, party too much, and don't pay off your debts. REGARDLESS it's an AMAZING FILM.
asscoma 2 years ago
@asscoma I'm not sure you know the difference between left and right. When have the right had property rights on morality?
Woblesavvy 2 years ago
@asscoma
Sigh. Asscoma, there is nothing "liberal" about womanizing, cheating, and excess. Those things have no ideological loyalties.
One of the most insane things about this "liberal/conservative" nonsense is that people have come to conflate politics with lifestyle. While they CAN be related, they're two different things.
Marbles471 1 year ago 2
@asscoma This is not anti-liberal film at all. And if you don't know what liberal means, than look it up, pal!
cutis1000 1 year ago
damn old Burt was in shape
sean57 2 years ago 32
this is a real American movie, not crowd pleasing drivel like..........................(your pick here)
MKUltra3 2 years ago 4
but it is sad that he comes back to the brokendown wreck of his home, even through those that he met on his journey didn't have the courtesy to tell him so.
New England/York- who'd have them? New York Times theatrical critics, suck on my bollocking stump.
manyhighhills 2 years ago
I think some of them didn't know, at least the ones further at at the start of the film, then the ones that did knew (the closer he got to his home) sort of treated him like dirt.
You'll have to pardon me if I have the details wrong, I haven't seen the film in years.
kawahawk76 2 years ago
0:56 , Janice Rule, a seriously clever person, I remember her.
manyhighhills 2 years ago
A strange film with a spooky conclusion
kenfig 2 years ago
This film totally sums up my life
lvl4biohazard 2 years ago 3
Wow....lvl4biohazard...talk to me!
I saw this movie in 1968 and.....I swear, I have an original poster on my wall.
mikefastener 2 years ago
Soundtrack is awful. But the movie is powerful.
cutis1000 2 years ago
Actually I rather like the soundtrack. It's appropriate for teh period.
gnolti 2 years ago
Beyond Super Awesome!!!!!!!!
tlhawkes 2 years ago
awesome
joeyr75 2 years ago
Let's all swim!
HunterMann 2 years ago
I saw this movie at least twenty years ago and loved it. This is the first time I've seen anything of it since then. Thanks for uploading the trailer.
ozal57 2 years ago
beyond awesome
bananafix 2 years ago
I had no idea they made a movie out of this story. Honestly, I'm surprised they DID - it's not a long story.
Just a question to those who've seen it: Is it any good?
bbqplatypus318 2 years ago
I love this film.
So odd and very sad.
Janice Rule was so hot in this.
GypsyFairy69 2 years ago
he was in amazing shape for a 55 year old guy
dolcevitausa 2 years ago 24
He was 52.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
This movie that I see in television since long years ago, are one the saddest that I have seen in all my life, the solitude and the decadence reflected in his house at the end,,,,,,terrible!!!!!
JackStarkey anytimes feeling a swimmer too!!!
JackStarkey57 2 years ago
American Dream's materialism assaulted by the failure to recognize one's own human frailties. The film is a pointed attack on the smugness of upper middle class Americans generally and thier self-centered lifestyle that Ned epitomizes by his extreme individualism and even eccentric behaviours. The ending I find the most powerful: a "family" man confronts the reality of his broken family and is shut out from his own home to swim in the cold outer world.
hospitalship1 2 years ago
lol. joan rivers does not look much different than 41 years ago
ROBERT9205 2 years ago
I've only seen a few of Frank Perry's movies, but it seems like he could do not wrong. Although, some of the editing in his films wasn't always the greatest, I think that can be overlooked. So far, this movie and Last Summer are my favorites.
inflatablewhores 2 years ago
so some body here know orson willis
aatef1981 2 years ago
other lady(his ex gf) was wierd ,but had nice legs
ROBERT9205 3 years ago
Joan Rivers at 1:50. 41 years ago !
tracer740 2 years ago
You loved it...
You loved it.
pipall 3 years ago 2
A great film!
beatles6120 3 years ago
Ok. I get the theme and story behind it. But this movie is awful. The acting is horrendous, the cuts are awful, Burt belly flops every time he jumps in a pool. Oh, and he totally wants to sleep with the girl who used to baby sit his children. Give me a break. This movie is awful. Except for the hotdog stand scene. That was quite incredible.
kodie131 3 years ago
Well, i'd want to sleep with the girl who babysits his children! and the hotdog scene was a very good scene, but i like all this movie. it is arty, but a good arty in my opinion. burt lancaster was in amazing shape for a 55 year old too! it's a different film, and he gives a really good performance. a very sad film as well. i imagined him having a close-nervous breakdown, as he seems so aloof and out of place with everybody he meets.
the81kid 3 years ago
From a story by John Cheever. Burt was never better.
Toracube 3 years ago
great great movie
nab2021 3 years ago
This is a great movie.
smokes2468 3 years ago
Janet Landgard was only 14 when she made this movie. What's she doing driking champagne and messing around with Burt Lancaster in the first place?
nanlisa 3 years ago
Its a bit scary to think it only takes a combination of cruel knocks and a bit of misfortune for any of us to possibly end up like Lancaster's character running around in a pair of swimming trunks !
stormywindmill 3 years ago
one of my favorites!! 5*
jarrelana 3 years ago
this is a great film. this and pretty poison are often over-looked to the point of being nearly forgotten. i hope this trailer leads many movie fans to seek this film out.
jhrunion 3 years ago
wow this is the gayest thing I've ever seen. I have to read this script for a class and I'm dreading it already
bluemoojuice 3 years ago
poor baby
emersonballa2 3 years ago 3
I saw this several years ago on AMC. I don't know how Lancaster was when he mad this, but he looks real good in those swim shorts.
emerytownblues 3 years ago
yep...im gonna have to see this film again
mal334455 3 years ago
Frank Perry is a great movie maker. I love also "David and Lisa".
GiadBalGia 3 years ago
Marvellous
Mariantonellina 3 years ago
Very underrated film. Seen in the context of its time, it's quite well done, very moving, and relevant.
gnolti 3 years ago
Excuse me, do you think it might be possible for you to post some scenes of the movie? I am really interested but is very difficult to get this kind of film nowadays...
thks
diablecita 3 years ago
Try in Emule... I downloaded it.
GiadBalGia 3 years ago
thank you
diablecita 3 years ago
it would probably be helpful to read the short story first before seeing the movie.the movie is very complex,and is as tragic as any Shakespeare play.i agree that Burt Lancaster was an actor that took chances.the movie was a flop,not surprising since it took about 2 years to be released.a notable appearance by Janice Rule,a fine actress,in a scene shot separate from the rest of the film.
tomloft2000 3 years ago
This is far from a soaper but the preview was made to attract a wide audience. The viewer can not be lazy minded and the film will mostly appeal to adults. A limited life experience due to youthfulness or being cloistered will preclude one from relating to the film's message which is explained in the sad ending. Lancaster at his best with a brilliant performance and the final scene haunts me to this day. A must see for the serious film fan.
IJG26 3 years ago
NO, if you look at this film lightly and superficially, it will feel like a low point in his career, but it was an intimate glimpse of his brilliance. Lancaster was an original and he would not limit himself to the cookie cutter roles that he would be offered.. He was an original American artist. I found him strange and idiosyncratic at times, yet intense and very sensual, He had an elegant move, athletic and graceful.. and when he spoke to a woman on screen.. well, she was the only one.
tojour 3 years ago
this must of been one of the low points in lancasters career. its like a crappy soap opera, just listen to the thing.
i dont think ill go watch this. i just looked it up cuz the blonde chick from the Donna Reed Show was in it. haha
fallenwillrise 3 years ago
fallenwillrise: Allow me to elaborate on what others have said--
Trust me, this movie is NOT a soap. The trailer might make it look like one, but you know how misleading those can be.
This movie, rather, is a strange, unsettling dip into the surreal. It starts out seeming sort of normal, but as the film goes on it becomes more and more obvious that SOMETHING is not right. It plays games with your perception of reality---a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Give it a shot.
Marbles471 3 years ago
umm, you're deeply mistaken. This film is remarkable and incredibly refreshing. Watch it.
cinemawonderland 3 years ago
It is a good picture, very sad.
witchman67 3 years ago
i just saw it omg i felt sooo freakin sorry for him at the end but omg if u haven't seen it you HAVTA!
ihateskirts 3 years ago
Great movie, tehanks for upload the trailer
dad333 3 years ago
This film has haunted me all my life. It's amazing! please, everyone watch it. I will rock your world.
Kevo216666 3 years ago
I saw a little piece of it when I was around 10 or twelve and for some unexplained reason.. always remembered it. I have been searching/ reading more about it. Why, I wonder is it haunting to you? I think Lancaster was brilliant in many ways
tojour 3 years ago
tojour - Good question, I'm not sure. Like you I was young - 10ish. I think I found it shocking. It just seems to have got under my skin.
Kevo216666 3 years ago
Does Burt EVER wear a shirt in this film? As you can tell, this film's for the ladies. Two words to describe Burt Lancaster: BEEF-cake! :)
-MINESWEEP
MINESWEEP2k 3 years ago
this film looks very confusing but i still wanna see it
ihateskirts 3 years ago
"A motion picture that breaks new ground" This film was so well made. The script, The music, the acting, the photography. It's hard for me to say this but Bert's character is like representing the Mascline in every man. I see him in me and in lots of men. I have had a women problem. I have had an ego problem. Come on men lets treat the feminine with more respect!! "When you talk about The Swimmer will you talk about yourself?" Hmmm... I've never heard anyone talk that before"
Aspiritinahumanbody 4 years ago
he still looked great in a bathing suit even at that age
dolcevitausa 4 years ago
Calling Dr. Freud...
znarf541 4 years ago
Absolutly! bring on more films like this! good luck hollywood!!!
Kevo216666 3 years ago
It can be possible a way to you send me this movie for air mail? Is impossible find this movie without internet, can you do me that BIG favor in away?
marianopasodelrey 4 years ago
Deeply disturbing. This film should not be forgotten, as it seems to be.
It should be on everyones must see list.
biminitwst 4 years ago 2
It works on soooo many levels. It will stay with you forever. It crept up on me as a kid and will alway be with. See also The Wicker Man - equally devastating.........but very different.
Kevo216666 3 years ago
La vi hace solo unos dias en TV, y me gusto un monton, muy fascinante la vuelta que tiene en el final.
marianopasodelrey 4 years ago
Glad to see so many Swimmer fans. Although I have some issues with the film, they are mainly ones of production design -- the material called for a director with a little more auteur in his blood than Frank Perry. But Lancaster's performance is very real and deeply moving, one of his best.
gnolti 4 years ago 2
One of the most fascinating American films of the 1960s or any decade, subject to an almost endless variety of interpretations. Recommended viewing for any cinema student.
And Burt Lancaster showed his butt!
scotpens 4 years ago
"And Burt Lancaster showed his butt!"
thats just makes ALL the difference lmao
ihateskirts 3 years ago
Incredible movie.
One question: someone knows what happened with Janeth Landgard?
nicol55 4 years ago
I love this movie...original, haunting. I never forgot it.
cheerbear237 4 years ago
This movie is GREAT. Well worth seeking out.
scoutie101 4 years ago
This film would be a good teaching tool for sociology, psycology and literature classes, and probably others. I have fond memories of the 60's era, my formative years, and this makes it even better. I would recommend The Swimmer for anyone who likes to think, and will enjoy watching a film over and over to try for the meaning of it. I read somewhere that Alec Baldwin is considering a re-make, good luck with that, it's a tough act to follow.
eezee2luv 4 years ago 2
I think this artistic success was a mistake though, they couldn't have planned the feelings that are evoked by this. Similar to Bogart's Casa Blanca, which was just a studio production film, squeezed between others in a hectic schedule, this film exceeded expectations in contemporary judgement only, as those in the day were dissappointed with it.
eezee2luv 4 years ago 2
What is astonishing is how the story rises so far above the obvious technical flaws of 1960's film making. It is based upon one of John Cheever's short stories, originally appearing in New Yorker magazine in the early 60's. John Cheever actually appears briefly as an extra in one of the pool scenes. But this movie leaves the short story so far behind, with more depth and nuance and unanswered questions than could possibly be put to print.
eezee2luv 4 years ago 2
The making of this film is an interesting story in itself. There were two directors, and one segment was filmed in California out of necessity, a distraction when palm trees are clearly visible when the setting is supposed to be a new england state. Toward the end of filming, the financing ran out and Burt himself paid for the finish as the studio thought correctly this film would be a money loser.
eezee2luv 4 years ago
I was just a boy when I saw this on the late nite telivision, I thought it was about where I lived in Cocoa beach.lol I saw the movie again later in life and it made me so sad.
ClemClemens1111 4 years ago
A most remarkable American film, even in the sixties where experimentaion was as its height. I first saw it in black-and-white(in 1968)and found it intensely mind-probing, personally emotional,and clearly illustrated the absurd illusions of the bourgeois. similar to a fillini movie but not a parody. Needless to say it didn't make it commercially..so what's new?
padleynj 4 years ago
This is a powerful drama with a haunting theme,makes you think of times gone by and the way things change as life moves from one stage to another.Beautifully acted and filmed in a poetic way with lots of scenic shots of nature.The kind of movie that draws you into the character as you watch it.Burt Lancaster was one of a kind.A classic.
cbrb40 4 years ago
Lancaster as usual gives only 100%, one of the greatest Actors Hollywood ever produced, what a body at 55 also. This film is unique & absorbing,only saw it recently
mickeyh1961 4 years ago 2
"An exciting different film." "When you talk about The Swimmer will you talk about yourself?" "I'm a very special human being." where is the thunderstorm? O.o
Proxsiticai 4 years ago
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Worst movie ever -hands down.
elmerfudd8675309 4 years ago
This was Burt's favorite. Great touch of the sixties.
zenarcade64 4 years ago
Wow, thanks for this! I saw this film years ago and it haunted me.
BerlinLynn 4 years ago
...yes and the ending is good.
crashsite000 4 years ago
I loved this film and would watch it again. so original.
mooker5600 4 years ago
A sense of time long gone.
LoriVanessaGreenbaum 4 years ago
emotiva, bonita peli.
sontosmoll 4 years ago