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The Who’s Tommy Pictures

“Prologue 1945” / “Overture” (21)

A Film by Ken Russell, Tommy, by “The Who”
Mr. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Walker
Mr. Walker
Mrs. Walker
Mrs. Walker
Mr. Walker
Mrs. Walker
Mr. Walker
Mr. Walker
Mr. Walker
Mrs. Walker and factory workers
Mrs. Walker and factory workers
“Captain Walker didn’t come home”
Mrs. Walker and factory workers
Nurse, Mrs. Walker, and baby Tommy

“It’s a Boy” (9)

“It’s a boy, Mrs. Walker, it’s a boy”
Mrs. Walker and baby Tommy
Nurses and Doctor
Mrs. Walker and baby Tommy
Little Tommy
Nora Walker
Rev. Simpson
Nora Walker
Nora Walker and little Tommy

“Bernie’s Holiday Camp” (20)

Bernie’s Holiday Camp
Bernie’s Holiday Camp
Frank Hobbs
“You must be little Tommy, well call me Uncle Frank”
“The camp with the extras”
“You might think you’re in heaven!”
Frank Hobbs and Nora Walker
Frank Hobbs
Frank Hobbs
Lovely Legs Competition
“If you could feel this silken thigh, you’d know who has to win”
Little Tommy
Little Tommy
“This evening must pass slowly”
“Will Tommy share our happiness?”
“I’ll take him out to cinemas and fairs”
“I will be a green coat too, and when I’m big, I’ll own a Holiday Camp”
Frank Hobbs, Nora Walker, and Little Tommy
“I’m glad you like your Uncle Frank”
“He’s very nice, I think. Did he fight in the war?”

“1951” (15)

“Gotta feeling ’51 is gonna be a good year”
“Especially if you and me see it out together”
Little Tommy
Captain Walker
Captain Walker
Little Tommy
Nora Walker
Captain Walker
Little Tommy
“What about the boy? He saw it all!”
“You didn’t hear it!”
“How absurd it all seems without any proof!”
“How absurd it all seems without any proof!”
“You never heard it, not a word of it!”
Little Tommy

“Amazing Journey” (10)

“Now he is deaf, now he is dumb, now he is blind”
“Sickness will surely take the mind where minds can’t usually go”
“Come on the amazing journey and learn all you should know”
Frank Hobbs and little Tommy
Little Tommy
“Sickness will surely take the mind”
“Come on the amazing journey and learn all you should know”
“His eyes are the eyes that transmit all he knows”
Little Tommy
Frank Hobbs, Nora Walker, and little Tommy

“Christmas” (12)

Nora Walker
Frank Hobbs
“Did you ever see the faces of the children, they get so excited”
“Tommy doesn’t know what day it is”
“Tommy can you hear me?”
“See me, feel me, touch me, heal me”
“How can he be saved?”
“He sits so silently and unaware of anything!”
“But how can men who’ve never seen light be enlightened?”
“How can he be saved?”
Frank Hobbs, Nora Walker, and little Tommy
Little Tommy

Tommy
John, Keith, and Pete
Marilyn Monroe girl
“You talk about your woman, I wish you could see mine”
“She brings eyesight to the blind, oh yeah”
Nora Walker and Tommy
“I can tell by the way she walks”
“Every time she starts to shake, the dumb begin to talk”
“Just one word from her lips and the deaf can hear”
“She has got the power to heal you, never fear”
Pete and John
John and Pete
Eyesight to the Blind
Marilyn Monroe statue
Nora Walker and Tommy
Nora Walker, Tommy, and Marilyn Monroe statue
Marilyn Monroe statue

“The Acid Queen” (33)

“Do You Think It’s Alright? (I)” / “Cousin Kevin” (19)

“Do you think it’s alright to leave the boy with Cousin Kevin?”
“We’re on our own, cousin”
“There’s a lot I can do to a freak!”
“What would you do if I turned on the bath…”
“…dunked your head under and started to laugh?”
“Maybe a cigarette burn on your arm…”
“…would change your expression to one of alarm”
“I’m the school bully”
Tommy
“I’ll drag you around by a lock of your hair”
“Or give you a push…”
“…at the top of the stairs”
“What would you do if I shut you outside”
“To stand in the rain and catch cold so you die?”
“We’re on our own, cousin”
“But I’ve no one to play with today”
Frank, Nora, and Tommy
Tommy
Tommy

“Do You Think It’s Alright? (II)” / “Fiddle About” (19)

Uncle Ernie and Tommy
Uncle Ernie
“He’s had a few too many tonight”
Uncle Ernie
Tommy
“I’m doing exactly what I bleeding well want to”
Uncle Ernie and Tommy
“Down with your bed clothes, up with your nightshirt”
Uncle Ernie
Uncle Ernie
Frank Hobbs
Frank Hobbs
Tommy
Uncle Ernie
Uncle Ernie
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy

“Do You Think It’s Alright? (III)” / “Sparks” (17)

“You would think he had sight”
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy and Nora
Frank

“Extra, Extra, Extra” (3)

Tommy
Frank
Nora

“Pinball Wizard” (18)

The Pinball Wizard
“Ever since I was a young boy, I played the silver ball”
“From Soho down to Brighton, I must’ve played ’em all”
Tommy
“Feeling all the bumpers, always playing clean”
“That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball!”
“He’s a pinball wizard, there has to be a twist”
“Ain’t got no distractions, can’t hear no buzzes and bells”
The Pinball Wizard
“I’ve never seen ’em fall”
“That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball!”
Keith and John
Keith
“There has to be a twist”
“A pinball wizard, got such a supple wrist”
Pete, Keith, John, and crowd
“He’s scoring more!”
Tommy

“Champagne” (9)

Nora
Queen
Rex Beans
Nora
“A million in reserve”
“But what’s it all worth?”
Nora
Nora
Nora

“There’s a Doctor” (4)

Frank
Nora
Frank
“There’s a man I’ve found could remove his sorrow”

“Go to the Mirror!” (12)

Doctor
“The tests I gave him showed no sense at all”
“His eyes react to light, the dials detect it”
“See me, feel me, touch me, heal me”
“There is no chance, no untried operation”
Doctor
Nora
“No machine can give the kind of stimulation”
“Look at him, now, in the mirror dreaming”
“What is happening in his head?”
“I wish I knew”
Nora and Tommy

“Tommy Can You Hear Me?” (3)

“Tommy, can you see me?”
Tommy
“Tommy?”

“Smash the Mirror” (7)

Tommy
Nora
Nora
Tommy and Nora
Nora
Tommy
Tommy

“I’m Free” (4)

Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy

“Mother and Son” (7)

Tommy and Nora
Nora
Tommy
“Mother? Father? Touch me, feel me!”
“Pinball! It’s a fever!”
“Those who love me have a higher path to follow now”
Tommy

“Miracle Cure” (2)

“Extra, extra, read all about it!”
“Pinball bonanza, a mother’s joy”

“Sally Simpson” (17)

Rev. Simpson and Sally Simpson
“Tears splashed the picture of the new Messiah”
“She knew from the start, deep down in her heart”
Sally’s Mother
“The theme of the sermon was come unto me, love will find a way”
“Maybe he’d see that she was free and talk to her this Sunday”
Uncle Ernie and Sally Simpson
Tommy
Pete, Keith, John, and Tommy
“The crowd went crazy as Tommy hit the stage”
“This meeting is just another game, let’s play to win tonight!”
Tommy and Frank
“The crowd went crazy as Tommy left the stage”
“A gash across her face, her pretty face”
“Sally still carries a scar on her cheek to remind her of his smile”
Sally Simpson
Rock Musician from California

“Sensation” (5)

“I’m a sensation!”
“They worship me and all I touch”
“Soon you’ll see me, can’t you feel me? I’m coming”
“I leave a trail of rooted people, mesmerised by just the sight”
“The few I touched now are disciples”

“Welcome” (8)

“Come to my house, be one of the comfortable people”
Nora and Frank
“You can help to collect some more in”
“Everyone go home and fetch your relations”
“Come to this house”
“Spare no expense, now”
Frank
“Come to me now”

“Tommy’s Holiday Camp” (2)

“I welcome you to Tommy’s Holiday Camp!”
“The holiday’s forever!”

“We’re Not Gonna Take It” (7)

Tommy
“My name is Tommy and I became aware this year”
“You know where to put the cork”
“We’re not gonna take it!”
Tommy
Frank
Nora and Tommy

“Listening to You” (6)

“Listening to you, I get the music”
“I get excitement at your feet”
“Gazing at you, I get the heat”
“Following you, I climb the mountain”
“Listening to you!”
Roger Daltrey as Tommy