BK: I'm on board with your assessment of "The Boy Friend"...all the way!! I first saw it in Jacksonville FL (where I was stationed) and it was the cut version, but it was still wonderful. It wasn't until the laserdisc that the full scope of Russell's vision emerged, and it was, by my estimation, a masterwork.
Love Twiggy, love Tommy, love Christopher, and love, love, love Pauline (Maisie)...as well as everyone else in the cast ("you....me....Hol-ly-wood?"). The production is superb, and while I wasn't at all surprised that John Williams won a well-deserved first Oscar for "Fiddler on the Roof", I was rather hoping Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell might be named.
Oh, well.