I love this movie so much

Excellent adaptation.

Beautiful, moving film.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This was the worst movie I ever went to. It had one scene like a stage, which never changed... which the mostly just one main singer jumping around the stage as he sang. Similar to a one-person stage play with no scenes and no story. Just jumping around the stage from one end to the other while singing.I don't mind singing. I've seen some decent musicals. Funny Girl had come out not too long before this and there were quite a few musicals during that era. I wouldn't even mind watching someone sing on stage. But this was awful. Painfully horrible. But I would rather buy a record than watch this film.45 minutes into the movie after waiting for it to do something, it actually made me physically ill. Having to sit in the theater watching the one stage scene for so long... I had to run to the restroom to throw up. That's how bad this movie was... and I wasn't ill before I went in there... and I recovered after leaving.I was unable to stay in the theater another minute. I had to leave because it was literally making me physically ill. It was supposed to be a double header with "Oliver" but we never made it. I sat there as long as I could but I became so ill from watching it, I had to leave.It was the movie which made me ill. To this day, it is still the only movie which ever made me physically ill... and remains one of only 3 movies which I hated so much I could not watch them to the end. "Hardware" was another.Just getting outside the theater was a huge improvement, but it was at least an hour before the nausea from that movie subsided. I've never had motion sickness... but this movie was the closest thing I can think of to describe that. But every minute of this movie was so miserable and so painful that it turned my stomach upside down... literally.I have never, ever forgotten how much I detested this movie. I was hoping they had destroyed the negative and every copy of the film.

Without its co-creator and original leading man, Anthony Newley, this film is at a disadvantage right from the start. It's a record of a stage musical, largely filmed in the theatre, with black and white inserts taped at a studio. It only really works because it is fresh and unique, and because of three wonderful songs in particular: 'Gonna Build a Mountain', 'Once in a Lifetime', and 'What Kind of Fool Am I'.The problem really is that Tony Tanner, although good, is no Newley, and mimicking vocal mannerisms isn't really enough to hide the fact he's a poor substitute. Having said that, the film doesn't lack charm and anything with Millicent Martin has to get the thumbs-up. Perhaps a product of its time, and now rather dated, but watched in the right frame in mind it still stands up, perhaps better than a stage revival would these days.

My wife and I put on our old VHS copy the other night (having not seen it for many years) and once more became totally absorbed in the production and Tony Tanner's performance. Some have called it outdated but it's pure theater with a theater-type experience as best as could be reproduced on screen. "World's" brilliance is that it's simple story combined with a magnificent score can hold audience captivated, no small achievement considering it is done in mime and soliloquy and performed within the confines of a small circular one-ring circus-type stage with no elaborate settings.Just magnificent, not matter what generation.

You simply cannot put a couple of cameras in an orchestra pit and film "Stop the World", yet this is exactly what they have done. Starring Newley's stand-in and later replacement when he took the show to Broadway. Tanner tries hard but Tony Newley he ain't! Millie Martin does a little better as Evie but the whole thing makes you yearn for the brilliance that was Anthony Newley. Paul Goodhead - President of the Anthony Newley Appreciation Society Worldwide. (Officially recognised by the family/estate of Anthony Newley).