The Pleasure Garden

A puritanical Minister of Public Behaviour attempts to keep a tight reign on the strangers who come to a crumbling public park to act out their basest fantasies. His attempts to arrest them and turn the park into a cemetery are hampered by the impish tricks of a fat, hairy godmother who tries to defend the strangers' pleasure-seeking antics. Avant-garde filmmaker James Broughton won a prize for this satiric fairy tale at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. The production was filmed in the ruined gardens of the Crystal Palace in London.