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Mark Kureishy's avatar

I do remember that sex scene…even after all these years…ha-ha!

I think it’s a terrific film, and Vincent Price notwithstanding, Ian Ogilvie turns in a star making performance that never, inexplicably, led to real stardom. Too similar to Roger Moore in looks, and doing a wretched rehash of The Saint, with that awful Jag instead of the Volvo, didn’t help him any. Shame; I always liked him in anything I saw of his, especially an episode of Michael Palin’s Ripping Yarns!

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Luke Honey's avatar

You're right, of course. It's great. The fact that we're all sitting around talking about it. It just has that certain something. Love Ian Ogilvy- his uncle happened to be none other than David Ogilvy of Madison Avenue fame. Funnily enough watched the late 70s version of The Saint again the other evening, and you're right- it's bloody awful. Really insipid. But he had those smooth, late 70s fashionable blow-dried looks- like Christopher Cazenove. Another Old Etonian. Do I need to do something on The Blood on Satan's Claw?

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Mark Kureishy's avatar

Of course you do, Luke…ha-ha!

Yes, think I knew about the connection with Adland’s Ogilivie. And does Jack Lowden not remind you a little of a young Ian Ogilvie?

Cazenove never did it for me - too blandly anodyne, but I definitely had a thing as a teenager for the future Mrs Cazenove, Angharad Rees! Sadly gone now…

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Luke Honey's avatar

I had to look up Jack Lowden. LOL. Yup, Ian's father was Francis- of Ogilvy & Mather. My mother worked for him in the 60s. Francis's brother was the famed David. We are going to have to agree to disagree on Cazenove. He's great in the Duchess of Duke Street, a series I rate- and I seem to remember an amusing episode of Hammer House of Horror, with a BMW and a London mews house.

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Mark Kureishy's avatar

Agree about Duchess of Duke Street. Forgotten about that…

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Luke Honey's avatar

It's really great. Curiously, despite the brilliant John Hawkesworth input, BBC for that one. When many of the best period dramas of the time were made by edgier, commercial television ie Granada, Euston Films or LWT- Brideshead, Upstairs Downstairs, Danger UXB and Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett. I may well do a post... the Granada/Sherlock Holmes post did really well.

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Winter & Dumas's avatar

Being Scottish, I concur this was I deed the horrendous method used here indeed! Funnily enough, JP and I were talking about this movie last week, it's been some time since I've watched it.

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Luke Honey's avatar

'Lust and Greed were His only Gods...' Superlative performance from Mr. Price. Is this one his greatest films?

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Winter & Dumas's avatar

Vincent Price as Mathew Hopkins.. unforgettable!

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