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‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classic

An audience at Duke of York's Picturehouse in Brighton
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From a jail-inspired light sabre fight to the moment a sax-player flew, Take It or Leave It brilliantly captured the band’s grimy origins. Will the film’s return see it finally honoured as a music movie landmark?

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