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Jan 21, 2020 - 11:28 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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After a walk-on in CLEOPATRA, Jeremy Kemp’s next feature film appearance came in the well-regarded Amicus film DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS, the first of many multi-story horror films made by the company. In this 1965 production, Peter Cushing played “Dr. Sandor Schreck,” known as Dr. Terror, who joins five men in a train compartment and proceeds to tell each man’s future with tarot cards. Jeremy Kemp appears in the supporting role of “Jerry Drake” in a segment entitled “The Creeping Vine.” In that tale, “Bill Rogers” (Alan Freeman) learns that a creeping vine growing on his house will engulf and destroy his family.
Freddie Francis directed the film. Tubby Hayes, an English jazz artist, was hired to write the score but did not write anything and so was replaced by Elisabeth Lutyens. (Hayes appears in the film, however, with the Tubby Hayes Quintet, performing his song "Voodoo.")
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Jan 21, 2020 - 11:30 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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In OPERATION CROSSBOW, during World War II, three Allied agents--“Lt. John Curtis” (George Peppard), “Phil Bradley” (Jeremy Kemp), and “Robert Henshaw” (Tom Courtenay)—parachute into Holland, cross into Germany, and attempt to infiltrate the underground plant producing Germany’s V-1 rockets, which are pummeling London.
George Peppard and Jeremy Kemp in OPERATION CROSSBOW
MGM executives did not know that the German characters would be speaking German (with subtitles) in the film until they saw the rough cut. They wanted to have the German dialogue dubbed into English, but director Michael Anderson persuaded them to keep the subtitled dialogue. Film Score Monthly released Ron Goodwin's score in 2004. The film did decent business in the U.S., grossing over $10 million, but was a bigger hit in the UK.
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Well done Bob. I hant spotted that.
He was superb in Crossbow and Blue max.
Very distinctive actor.
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Jan 21, 2020 - 11:38 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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When rookie Police Constable “Peter Strange” (Michael York) falls for an under-aged girl (Susan George), he is unknowingly compromised by a pair of pornographers in THE STRANGE AFFAIR. Meanwhile, seasoned “Det. Sgt. Pierce” (Jeremy Kemp) is out to catch mob boss “Quince” (Jack Watson) and soon both plots intertwine. Bernard Toms, the author of the original novel on which Stanley Mann based his screenplay, had been a London police officer before finding success as a writer.
Jeremy Kemp and Barry Fantoni in THE STRANGE AFFAIR
The terrifying character of Detective-Sergeant Pierce was based on a real person, Detective-Sergeant Harold Challenor, a decorated war hero who joined the police in 1951 and was soon very well-known in London for his fierce devotion to law enforcement and his phenomenal arrest rate. He was often accused of planting evidence or of beating up suspects, but as his accusers were usually known to be figures on the fringes of the underworld (or worse), these charges were ignored or dismissed until 1963, when he arrested a man on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon (a half-brick) during a demonstration. The man was a prominent member of the National Council for Civil Liberties and he protested his arrest in the strongest terms; an investigation eventually revealed that Challenor had indeed planted the evidence, and there was a considerable scandal. A report into the case was generally dismissed as a whitewash, with Challenor found to be suffering from mental illness. He was dismissed from the police force and died in his late eighties in 2008.
David Greene directed this 1968 crime drama, which had an unreleased score by Basil Kirchin.
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Jan 21, 2020 - 12:23 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Jeremy Kemp co-starred with Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson in Blake Edwards’ big-budget flop DARLING LILI. This musical-comedy-drama, set during World War I, found Andrews playing “Lili Smith,” a popular singer with London audiences, who also acts as a German agent. Her assignment, relayed by superior “Colonel Kurt von Ruger” (Kemp), is to develop a friendship with American officer “Major William Larrabee” (Hudson).
Jeremy Kemp in DARLING LILI
DARLING LILI was not initially going to be a musical. The film was only planned to have a couple of performance scenes to establish Julie Andrew’s character as an entertainer, but the studio insisted on turning it into a musical. Blake Edwards disowned the final cut, citing that the studio had final say. He was given the opportunity to re-cut the film in the 1990s and he deleted about 29 minutes of footage, including most of the songs.
With a final production cost of over $18 million, 1970’s DARLING LILI was described as one of the most expensive pictures ever made. Despite a roadshow rollout, after more than seven months in release, the 6 January 1971 Variety listed the cumulative box-office rentals as $3.25 million, making DARLING LILI only the thirty-seventh highest-grossing film of 1970. Henry Mancini’s score and Julie Andrews’ songs shared the RCA LP release, which was re-issued on CD by RCA Spain in 1999.
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Jan 21, 2020 - 12:55 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Four marathon runners--one from England (Michael Crawford), one from the U.S. (Ryan O’Neal), a Czechoslovakian (Charles Aznavour), and an Australian Aborigine (Athol Compton)--prepare to run in the Olympics. This 1970 film follows each one and shows what their motivations are for running in THE GAMES. Jeremy Kemp plays “Jim Harcourt,” a flamboyant gambler who tries to cash in on the Aborigine’s talent. Michael Winner directed the film, which was written by Erich Segal (LOVE STORY).
Francis Lai’s score was released on LP by Viking in the U.S. and Stateside in the UK. A then-unknown Elton John sang the Francis Lai and Hal Shaper-penned song "From Denver to L.A." as part of the film's soundtrack. He was so little-known at that point, that he was credited on the label as "Elton Johns". The label planned to issue the song as a single (VIK-1010, backed with "Warm Summer Rain" by The Barbara Moore Singers), and promotional copies were pressed, but John, who first hit stardom toward the end of 1970, had the record withdrawn before commercial copies could be pressed. Upon his reaching superstar status, promotional copies of the "From Denver to L.A." single have become prized collector's items and an interesting curio in John's recorded catalogue. The film’s soundtrack LP, which includes the song, has not been re-issued on CD.
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