The Committee
Directing: Peter Sykes, Max Steuer, Peter Sykes
The Committee, starring Paul Jones of Manfred Mann fame, is a unique document of Britain in the 1960s. After a very successful run in London’s West End in 1968, viewings of this controversial movie have been few and far between. Stunning black and white camera work by Ian Wilson brings to life this “chilling fable” by Max Steuer, a lecturer (now Reader Emeritus) at the London School of Economics. Avoiding easy answers, The Committee uses a surreal murder to explore the tension and conflict between bureaucracy on one side, and individual freedom on the other. Many films, such as Total Recall, Fahrenheit 451 and Camus’ The Stranger, see the state as ignorant and repressive, and pass over the …
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Arthur Brown
Himself 
Jimmy Gardner
Boss 
Paul Jones
Central figure 
Tom Kempinski
Victim 
Robert Langdon Lloyd
Committee Director 
Pauline Munro
Girl 
