The Greeneyed Elephant

The Greeneyed Elephant
VHS cover for 'The Green Eyed Elephant'
Directed byPeer Guldbrandsen
Written byPeer Guldbrandsen
Sidney W. Pink
Produced byHans Barfod
StarringNaura Hayden, Delphi Lawrence, Dirch Passer
CinematographyAage Wiltrup
Edited byEdith Nisted Nielsen
Music bySven Gyldmark
Distributed byTroma Entertainment
Release date
  • 15 August 1960 (1960-08-15)
Running time
76 minutes
CountryDenmark
LanguageDanish

The Greeneyed Elephant (Danish: Elefanter på loftet) is a 1960 Danish body-swap comedy directed by Peter Guildbrassen and Sidney W. Pink. It stars Naura Hayden and Delphi Lawrence, and includes Dirch Passer playing a smaller role though top-billed in the marketing.[1]

Premise

Two aspiring actresses accidentally use an ancient Aztec elephant sculpture to switch bodies, thus combining their inner and outer talents, making it possible for one of them to land a coveted role. Based on the novel Turnabout (1931) by Thorne Smith.

Cast

Production

The film is in fact a TV pilot that became a feature film.[2]

Reception

The film is seen as the Danish example of the trope that is body swapping.[3] As the other two films made by Pink in Denmark, The Green-Eyed Elephant offers no erotic content and was very poorly received by Danish critics[4]

See also

  • Reptilicus, another film written by Pink and starring Passer

References

  1. ^ "The Green-Eyed Elephant". www.dfi.dk. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  2. ^ Stewardson, Christopher (6 February 2021). "In Defence of Reptilicus". Our Culture. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  3. ^ Conaway, Evan (10 January 2022). "Freaky (2020)". Movie Reviews by a Mook. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  4. ^ Stevenson, Jack (2 September 2015). Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1259-1.


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