{"id":501423,"date":"2026-03-29T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501423\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:42:08","slug":"the-star-studded-film-shot-in-guildford-that-was-never-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501423\/","title":{"rendered":"The star-studded film shot in Guildford that was never released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Murphy played the publication&#8217;s editor, Richard Neville, and Miller played his then-girlfriend Louise Ferrier,&#8221; Albury local historian Trevor Brook told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0hy6kcq\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Surrey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You would imagine the film would be a big hit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brook believed the film was never released because it &#8220;wasn&#8217;t regarded as very good&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said movie critic Felix Dennis, who was invited to watch a preview of the film, was quoted in The Times saying: &#8220;I think is quite possibly the worst film to be made in the 21st Century&#8221; and it was &#8220;a dog&#8217;s breakfast&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another critic Matt Robinson, who also previewed the film, wrote: &#8220;This is not only a good film it is educational too. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A good document of history that many journalists and non-journalists will enjoy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oz was first published in Sydney, Australia, in 1963 and its first UK publication was in 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Murphy played the publication&#8217;s editor, Richard Neville, and Miller played his then-girlfriend Louise Ferrier,&#8221; Albury local historian Trevor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-501423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}