- Film Discussed; clips are shown.
The 75th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special 2003)
Venus (2006)
A clip from The Ruling Class (1972) is used to represent one of Maurice's film."Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema" British Comedy (TV Episode 2021)
Clip shown
"Special Branch" Red Herring (TV Episode 1973)
Poster for the film seen.There's Nothing Out There (1991)
Video case is shown in a video store."The South Bank Show" Peter O'Toole (TV Episode 1992)
Clips shownZ Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (TV Movie 2004)
The title is visible on a magazine cover.- It is mentioned in a magazine.
La Traviata (1967)
The main character of La traviata is impersated in the Ruling Class and a famous aria of the opera is sung and acted out.The Prisoner (TV Series 1967–1968)
"Dem Bones" song in both films.Doctor Faustus (1967)
A quote from the play is used: "Make me immortal with a kiss."Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series 1969–1974)
Jokes about tall Watusis in both films
Stiff Upper Lips (1997)
The butler urinatingHail, Caesar! (2016)
Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney, who doesn't want to be called Jack and who, according to his wishes, is called Bert, thinks he's Jesus Christ and is suspected by his uncle to be a Communist. In "Hail, Caesar!", Burt Gurney is the communist screenwriters' "messianic" patron, who in an iconographic scene takes leave of them and embarks on a passage to the Soviet Union (their "heaven"), one of several conflations and juxtapositions of Christianity and Communism in the film.
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