Film music by Pink Floyd - film "The Committee", 1968

The Committee is a 1968 British independent Black-and-white film noir film. It featured original music by Pink Floyd as well as Arthur Brown's song Nightmare.


The film "The Committee":

Synopsis:

The movie follows a man (Paul Jones) who is unnamed. The movie starts out with the central character in a car with a man (Tom Kempinski) who just picked him up. The victim talks to him, but he's uninterested. The victim decides to pull over because he doesn't like the sound of the engine. While he's looking under the hood of the car the central character slams the hood down on him, decapitating him in the process. The central character eventually sews the head back on, and the victim wakes up. The central character tells him he doesn't want to drive anymore that day and to leave without him.
A few years later the central character is called on to be part of a committee, groups that supposedly keep the system running but really don't do much of anything. He feels paranoid that the committee was called on account of him, and runs into the victim while there, who doesn't seem to remember him.
The central character talks about this with a man listed as 'The committee director' (Robert Langdon Lloyd) in the credits. This conversation lasts for the duration of the movie, and features most of the music Pink Floyd wrote for the film.


Directed by: Peter Sykes
Produced by: Max Steuer
Written by: Max Steuer and Peter Sykes

Director of Photography: Ian Wilson

Starring: Paul Jones

Featured Interlude: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Music by: Pink Floyd

Running time: 58 minutes
Language: English

Cast:

-  Arthur Brown as Himself
- Jimmy Gardner as Boss
- Paul Jones as Central figure
- Tom Kempinski as Victim
- Robert Langdon Lloyd as Committee Director (as Robert Lloyd)
- Pauline Munro as Girl

Interview by Oscar winning director Jon Blair with Max Steuer and Peter Sykes: This controversial document of Britain in the 60s is a filmed record of an talented group of improvisatory performers. It's a razor sharp satire on everything from draft evasion and black militancy to middle-class pot-heads and blind-dating. Starring Paul Jones of Manfred Mann fame, The Committee uses a surreal murder to explore the tension and conflict between bureaucracy on one side, and individual freedom on the other. The film offers all the spontanity and electricity of the live performance in the creative talents of The Committee, including a musical performance by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

A little-known curio of the 1960s, this surreal art-house fare stars Manfred Mann's Paul Jones as a wayward drifter, and features a sound track by Pink Floyd that has been much-coveted throughout the years, while remaining virtually unavailable. The unnamed central character (Jones) is hitchhiking to an unknown destination when he decides, without motivation, to cut off his driver's head. He sews it back on and he and the driver part ways, with no immediate repercussions until Jones is summoned before a mysterious Committee, who will decide the nature of his punishment. A meditation on the conflict between bureaucratic control and individual expression, the film also boasts legendary '60s figure Arthur Brown's performance of his hit song "Fire."



Arthur Brown - Nightmare:

Pink Floyd - The Committee Part 1, 2 & 8:

(Part 1 (inversed and regular), 2 and 8 of the unreleased score to the 1968 film "The Committee". Songs taken from the rarities bootleg collection "Tree Full of Secrets".)

Another part of Pink Floyd's music used in the film:

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Committee_(film) and YouTube