Billy Connolly – Big Banana Feet review: Fabulous fly-on-the-wall tour diary of a comic in his prime
Selected cinemas; Cert 12A
Billy Connolly being filmed during his 1975 tour
Those famous banana boots were still in good nick when Billy Connolly arrived in Ireland in October 1975. Superstardom was on the horizon, but first he had a tour to finish and the Irish gigs (one in Dublin, another in Belfast) were his last of the year. Director Murray Grigor filmed these final stops and, in doing so, documented a legend in the making.
Long considered buried and newly restored by the British Film Institute, this is a bit of a concert feature, a bit of a fly-on-the-wall tour diary. It also provides a beguiling snapshot of a very different Ireland.
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