TOMMY KEN RUSSELL THE WHO POCKET MOVIE GUIDE By Jeremy Mark Robinson. p Tommy is a 1975 movie based on the rock opera by the British pop band Who and directed by British genius Ken Russell. Shamelessly over-the-top, silly, wild, dynamic, primitive, glitzy and violent, Tommy ain't subtle it presents pop psychology which's crude as a sledgehammer, symbolism which's heavy-handed like a pinball machine hurled out of a hotel onto Sunset Strip it's decked out in Pop Art colours and costumes by way of glam rock it's proudly and bizarrely English and parochial and provincial it's perverse and kinky it's shrill and hysterical and it contains some of the finest music every included in a musical movie. If Richard Wagner was making movies out of his music in the 1970s, this is what it would look like. p Tommy would have to rank in the top three of anyone's Ken Russell films. It's one of those movies where every element comes together beautifully, and where everyone in the production seems to be wo