#john serret

[mariocki]

The Saint: The Queen's Ransom (5.1, ITC, 1966)

"You realise that a few years ago I could have had your head chopped off for that?"

"A few years back, I wouldn't have said it."

#the saint #the queen's ransom #1966 #leslie charteris #leigh vance #roy ward baker #roger moore #dawn addams #george pastell #nora nicholson #stanley meadows #catherine feller #gary hope #patrick westwood #peter madden #neville becker #john woodvine #larry taylor #john forbes robertson #john serret #andre charisse #what's that? you thought I'd given up on the saint? that I'd thrown in the towel‚ that I'm a coward and a liar? hah! well mud in your eye #bc here i am baby‚ back on my bullshit. i took a 'brief' break at the end of s4 before starting the color eps which ended up being 7 months #but actually the real gap between seasons 4 and 5 was more than a year. so what's new in Saintland? not much; immediately upon grabbing #this second boxset of colour eps and checking with my online transmission record i can see that network have liberally shuffled these eps #this first ep is on disc 2 while disc 1 features episodes from season 6 (!). as well as the shift to colour we also get a rearranged theme #(slightly more up tempo)‚ new titles and for the first time an entirely original script that doesn't even pretend to be adapted from a #Charteris story (true adaptations would be pretty rare from this point on). but it's a fun if familiar tale; Simon meets a deposed king and #his spoiled wife‚ and sets about teaching her some humility in true chauvinist fashion (as well as some stuff with jewels) #it isn't by any means a groundbreaking ep but if anything a degree of continuity between seasons 4 and 5 is somewhat welcome

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Films Watched in 2022:

51. Taste of Fear (1961) - Dir. Seth Holt

#Taste of Fear #Seth Holt #Susan Strasberg #Ronald Lewis #Ann Todd #Christopher Lee #John Serret #Leonard Sachs #Anne Blake #Fred Johnson #Hammer Films #Hammer Horror #Films Watched in 2022 #My Edits #My Post

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Taste of Fear (Scream of Fear) (1961) Seth Holt

February 24th 2024

#taste of fear #scream of fear #1961 #seth holt #susan strasberg #ronald lewis #ann todd #christopher lee #john serret #leonard sachs #anne blake

[reginadeinisseni]

Giochi particolari 1970

TONINO GUERRA FRANCO INDOVINA

Un marito, annoiato dalla routine matrimoniale e dalla vita, procura un amante alla moglie per poterli riprendere insieme.

Italia, Francia Anno 1970 Durata 98 min Genere drammatico Regia Franco Indovina Sceneggiatura Tonino Guerra, Franco Indovina Produttore Franco Indovina, Danilo Marciani Casa di produzione Produzione Intercontinentale Cinematografica Fotografia Arturo Zavattini Montaggio Roberto Perpignani Musiche Ennio Morricone (dirette da Bruno Nicolai) Costumi Adriana Berselli Trucco Giuseppe Banchelli Interpreti e personaggi Timothy Dalton: Mark Virna Lisi: Claude Marcello Mastroianni: Sandro John Serret: Aram Stephan:

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          Passages - Man From Interpol

Richard Wyler  (June 20, 1923 – March 5, 2010)

John Longden  (November 11, 1900 – May 26, 1971)

John Serret  (1917 - 1997)

#Passages #TV #Man From Interpol

[mariocki]

The Saint: To Kill a Saint (5.19, ITC, 1967)

"You're trembling, Le Duc."

"Never!"

"You're as upset as a mother kangaroo who's just had her pouch raided."

"I am not even mildly surprised. There must be over a hundred people in Paris who would like to kill the famous Simon Templar."

#the saint #to kill a saint #1967 #leslie charteris #michael winder #robert asher #roger moore #annette andre #peter dyneley #derek bond #francis matthews #robert cawdron #john serret #pamela ann davy #michael bilton #robert gillespie #victor winding #lawrence davidson #valerie leon #maggie wright #nita lorraine #Simon's in Paris and apparently has a hire car; I mention this only bc the Saintmobile has been conspicuous by its absence in most of these #colour eps but also bc this car magically changes colour from white to yellow depending on whether the shots are location or studio work #tbf not so much of an issue considering these eps were being transmitted in black and white in the uk.. this is a pretty solid ep #a twisty mystery about who's trying to frame who and why has someone got it in for Simon (i mean apart from the many obvious reasons) #speaking of which he does threaten to spank poor Annette André but relents once she bursts into tears... yeesh. Cawdron makes his fifth and #final appearance as Le Duc (spelled differently here than in previous eps where it was Leduc or even Luduc) joined for the second time by #Serret as Quercy (although tellingly Cawdron is ahead of him in the credits). yet again Simon is framed using the stick figure motif #also of note is a very risqué gag about Simon found in bed with two women and another in the shower... so risqué in fact the script then #has to go to pains to spell out that no don't worry he didn't have a foursome‚ it was all a trick to fool the cops... sure Simon...

[kwebtv]

         Passages - Man From Interpol

Richard Wyler   (June 20, 1923 – March 5, 2010)

John Longden   (November 11, 1900 – May 26, 1971)

John Serret   (1917 - 1997)

#Passages #tv #Man From Interpol

[mariocki]

The Saint: The Abductors (4.2, ITC, 1965)

"Inspector Quercy don't be a complete idiot, you know I'm not a murderer."

"I do not suggest that you kill these people."

"Thank you."

"But I do suggest that you are directly responsible for their deaths."

#the saint #the abductors #1965 #itc #leslie charteris #brian degas #jeremy summers #roger moore #dudley foster #robert urquhart #annette andre #jennifer jayne #robert cawdron #john serret #nicholas courtney #ronald ibbs #sandor elès #david garfield #martin wyldeck #anthony chinn #unremarkable of plot but strong of cast; this is a fun little episode of international spies and cunning killers. we're in Paris‚ which #means Cawdron makes his 4th appearance as Sgt Luduc‚ as ever accompanied by Insp Quercy (John Serret having replaced Manning Wilson; Serret #had previously played a French Canadian detective in 2.3). Bob Urquhart does his best washed up waster with a heart of gold‚ and the #baddies include baby Nick Courtney as a wicked frenchman and Dudley Foster as... well. immediately i found myself wondering what on earth #he was doing with his voice when‚ horror of horrors‚ another character makes passing reference to his being Welsh. oh Dudley. sigh. #Courtney's villain is a big step up from his previous uncredited role in 3.14 and he gets to go real nasty (slapping around both women in #the episode). Chinn rather unfairly goes uncredited despite having both dialogue and an impressive fight scene. and of course lovely #Annette Andre plays a charmingly eager holidaymaker who gets caught up in Simon's adventure of the week and loves every second of it #oh!! and beautiful Sandor Elés! he'd not long made Evil of Frankenstein but hasn't much to do here (but does it with style and grace and..) #dreamy sigh

[mariocki]

The Saint: Judith (2.3, ITC, 1963)

"Monsieur Templar, I have for you a high regard."

"Thank you."

"But yesterday you sit behind Monsieur Northwade at a hockey game and today you have an accident right in front of his house; it is a coincidence, no?"

"It's a coincidence, yes - and that's all."

#the saint #judith #1963 #itc #leslie charteris #Leonard Grahame #robert lynn #roger moore #julie christie #david bauer #margo johns #john mclaren #john serret #ross parker #warren stanhope #robert macleod #william greene #andre boulay #ronald wilson #georges robin #i had it in the back of my head from my last time watching the bw Saint episodes that the ones named after a woman (and there's quite a few #of these) are usually pretty bad episodes. I'm not sure why i remembered that way and if it's even true‚ but this is by no means a dud #episode; it's not a classic either‚ but a rather middling entry which concentrates more on familial melodrama than any real mystery plot #(save a last minute twist). a rare tv role for Julie Christie (she'd quit tv for the movies shortly after her starring role in 1961's A for #Andromeda‚ and when this aired she'd just made her first big splash in Billy Liar; hollywood's gain was the small screen's loss) #john serret's French Canadian policeman is (at least initially) much more Simon friendly than the usual cop; his subordinate Ross Parker #gets some nice moments as the hapless tail that Templar ends up treating to fancy dinners and cognac. the fight budget seems to have gone #up yet again‚ leading to a highly unlikely scene of Moore diving through a plate glass window and sprinting away without a scratch #oh‚ and whilst Simon has done a lot of smooching of his love interests of the week‚ this is the first episode to heavily imply that they #actually sleep together (must be the Canada air)

[mariocki]

Taste Of Fear (Scream Of Fear, 1961)

"You're trying to tell me that I'm not a cripple, that it's all in my mind?"

"I'm saying that could be the case."

"Was the horse that fell on me in my mind too? Did I imagine that?"

#taste of fear #scream of fear #hammer films #british cinema #films i done watched #1961 #psychological thriller #susan strasberg #Ronald Lewis #Ann Todd #christopher lee #Anne Blake #Leonard sachs #John serret #fred johnson #Heinz Bernard #Gordon sterne #jimmy sangster #seth holt #I saw this about a decade ago but I just got hold of indicators latest hammer boxset and figured I'd start with revisiting this #I remembered there was a twist but I couldn't remember what it was... So spent most of the film trying to second guess the action #Sometimes referred to as Hammers first psycho thriller which isn't strictly true: The Snorkel and The Full Treatment both predate it #But this was the film to cement the format and was a big enough hit that it saw the company rush out a slew of imitators over the next few #Years. It's all a bit convoluted and dense but it has moments of real style. Visually Holt draws on Psycho and in particular #Les Diaboliques for inspiration. The murky swimming pool at the centre of the film is brilliantly creepy. As much as I like her Strasberg #Isn't the strongest lead for this kind of film and Lewis doesn't really get to excel until the final act. Hokey and arch but fun enough

[mariocki]

Armchair Theatre: The Bird, The Bear And The Actress (ABC, 1959)

"I shall cry."

"That's all we can do. And sometimes, it's enough."

#Armchair Theatre #The bird the bear and the actress #classic tv #Single play #1959 #Harry h. Corbett #Barry Jones #kate reid #Lee Montague #Annabel maule #Jon sullivan #Paul whitsun Jones #David spenser #John serret #Rose howlett #ted kotcheff #John glennon #Still on my single play kick #And happily network recently had one of their legendary sales so I picked up the third and fourth of their latest armchair Theatre #Volumes. This opener to volume 3 is a rare surviving example of 50s AT. #Later on the series would get something of a reputation for being cheap and slightly tatty but this early play is ambitious in every #Respect: from its mountaintop setting to its cast of American characters and intense dialogue heavy showdowns #Canadian Reid and Englishmen Montague and Corbett all do pretty well at passing themselves off as Americans #Writer Glennon was an American and director Kotcheff Canadian so this was a real international production. It's an arty script #Playing (as several AT productions would) on the artiface of the performing arts and the soullessness that can be inherent in the biz #Corbett is at his slimiest serpentine best as the cold and calculating theatre producer; Montague frets and worries his way through as an #Indecisive and ultimately spineless director and Reid is powerful as his starlet wife who might be the only one with any integrity left #Aside that is from Jones who is vulnerable dignity personified. This might well have been his UK tv debut as he was based in the US #Kotcheff of course went on to a notable career as a filmmaker; his films include personal favourite Wake In Fright. Some of his style is #Evident here in this early work.