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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 6, 2021 19:10:38 GMT
The film on after it 'The Lost Continent' is bonkers. Made by Hammer in 1968 & based on the Dennis Wheatley novel 'Uncharted Seas' it's well worth a watch if you enjoy bizarre films.
Is that about a ship which gets lost in heavy seas and emerges in some kind of world where shipwrecked mariners from hundreds of years ago, like pirates etc are stranded there? Dana Gillespie was in it, from memory. Also, the steam, or diesel, powered ship was able to escape, while the sailing ships couldn't Yes, that's it. Dana Gillespie memorable for a couple of reasons
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Post by Vienna on Jan 6, 2021 19:33:21 GMT
I used to have the DVD of The Lost Continent, although I haven't seen it for a while, and it certainly is a bizarre film as Arthur says above. The lovely Suzannah Leigh appears in this sci-fi/adventure movie. She also starred in a bizarre horror film made by Amicus Productions a couple of years earlier called The Deadly Bees, a story about a killer strain of bees and based on a 1940s novel A Taste for Honey. Vi
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Post by Three Litre on Jan 6, 2021 20:25:43 GMT
Yes, that's it. Dana Gillespie memorable for a couple of reasons I know, I just Googled them .............
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 6, 2021 21:35:18 GMT
Just watching 'Only When I Larf' & it's the only time I've seen an ad break come during an opening titles sequence. The film has a long pre titles sequence & the titles only appear about 15 minutes into the film, the ad break came in before they'd quite finished, when the film resumed after the break you could still hear the theme music playing. Never ever seen that before.
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Post by Steve Austin on Jan 6, 2021 22:18:31 GMT
The two Americans (David Healy & Alan Gifford) who appear in the pre title sequence were reunited a year later in the “Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)” episode “Murder Ain’t What It Used To Be”.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 7, 2021 14:03:55 GMT
Slightly off topic but I thought it was interesting. I did a bit of searching on Victor Maddern, who was in 'The Lost Continent', and was surprised to read on imdb that he supposedly turned down any script that had swearing in it. Then I came across a spoken word album he did, bizarrely the reverse of the sleeve shows letters of reply to Maddern who had apparently written to the BBC, IBA, various politicians & film companies concerned about content on tv, what he calls 'the industry of unhappiness' in a quote at the bottom of the sleeve. He also compiled an album of religious readings in 1979 called 'Just For Today' featuring various actors including Bernard Lee & Sidney 'Manny Bellow' Tafler- www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/ver2972648&ei=1
He seems to have been a Mary Whitehouse type, which seems at odds with the impression he gives in the Dixon Of Dock Green outtake below where he says 'Christ', 's**t' & 'f*** Dick Green' Maybe he had a Christian conversion later in life, perhaps to atone for appearing in films like 'Blood Of The Vampire'.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Jan 7, 2021 14:07:56 GMT
Very odd and certainly something I didn't expect from Vic. He must have been cringing when he was driving the Steptoes to Harold's wedding...
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 7, 2021 17:37:24 GMT
There is a dedication to Maurice Colbourne on the back cover. I imagined this to be the Howards Way actor but checking up Colbourne took his name from another actor with the same name. Looking at the original Maurice Colbourne's imdb credits, he appeared in a tv production of 'Jesus Of Nazareth' in 1956, Maddern was also in the cast so this must be the actor he's refering to.
Possibly his devout Christian beliefs were as a result of appearing in this, it can happen with actors, they'll identify with a part so closely that it changes their life.
Speaking of Jesus Of Nazareth, Sky Arts are in the middle of showing the 4 part Robert Powell version, I happened to turn on at 2am & was surprised to see it as it's usually shown over Easter, January is an odd time to show it especially at 2am.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jan 7, 2021 18:36:02 GMT
I used to have the DVD of The Lost Continent, although I haven't seen it for a while, and it certainly is a bizarre film as Arthur says above. The lovely Suzannah Leigh appears in this sci-fi/adventure movie. She also starred in a bizarre horror film made by Amicus Productions a couple of years earlier called The Deadly Bees, a story about a killer strain of bees and based on a 1940s novel A Taste for Honey. Vi I was watching it in bed last night but turned it off as I was getting tired. It was a strange film alright. I spotted it for a Hammer production right away of course. It was the last film appearence by actor Jimmy Hanley who started making British films in the thirties. The guy who played the captain Eric Porter shot to fame after his performance in the BBC series 'The Forsythe Saga' which was hugely popular on the mid sixties. Porter died fairly young I believe.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 7, 2021 19:15:49 GMT
The Lost Continent has an interesting cast.
Darryl Read who plays El Supremo in the film was one of the 2 yobbos attacking taxi drivers in the Minder episode 'Come In T64 Your Time Is Ticking Away'. He was a musician involved with various bands & artists. Imdb claims that Richard O'Sullivan voiced El Supremo but it doesn't sound like him to me.
Stuntman & Christopher Lee's double Eddie Powell who appears in a few Sweeney episodes plays the Inquisitor who advises El Supremo.
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