The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

1h 43m

Comedy Documentary Music

6.2

A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make "a million pounds."

Cast

Malcolm McLaren

The Collaborator

Helen Wellington-Lloyd

Woman in Cinema

Mary Millington

Mary, The Crook's girlfriend

Record Executive

Julian Holloway

Edward Tudor-Pole

Tadpole (kiosk attendant)

Record Executive

Cinema Usherette

Catwoman (uncredited)

Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)

Record Executive (uncredited)

French singer on the street (uncredited)

Martin Bormann (uncredited)

Girl wearing 'only anarchists are pretty shirt' (uncredited)

Debbie Juvenile

Girl on the chorus at the opening track (uncredited)

Ex-Pistol (uncredited)

Sophie Richmond

McLaren's secretary (uncredited)

Nancy (uncredited)

Girl with ants on face (uncredited)

Audience member (uncredited)

Girl wearing 'only anarchists are pretty shirt' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Japanese Girl in Lonely Boy sequence (uncredited)

Punk (uncredited)

Terrance Mustdoo

Audience member (uncredited)

The Gimmick's mom (uncredited)

Man with Case of Money (uncredited)

Cinema Newsreel Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

Girl in the chorus on the opening track (uncredited)

Crew

Director, Writer, Author

Nicholas D. Knowland

Director of Photography

Adam Barker-Mill

Director of Photography

Willi Patterson

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Executive Producer

Executive Producer