THE FILM
FILM DIRECTOR: Irvin Kershner
SCREENWRITER: Elliott Baker
FILM STARS: Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O’Neal, Colleen Dewhurst, Clive Revel, Jackie Coogan, Sue Ane Langdon
COUNTRY: USA
THIS BOOK
AUTHOR: Elliott Baker
TYPE: Novel
PUBLISHER: Penguin
THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1966
COUNTRY: Great Britain
COVER: Paperback
THE ORIGINAL BOOK
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: As Above
YEAR FIRST PUBLISHED: 1964
ORIGINAL BOOK TITLE: The film title
NOTES
GENRE: Comedy drama
WORDS: I loved this film when I saw it many years ago. I even wrote down a quote (doesn’t everyone have a quotable quotes book?) … between Sean Connery’s poet and his psychiatrist, “You protect what is, while envision what can be”. Ahhh, the angsty teenager I was. Now i realise a psychiatrists job would be infinitely more secure than a poets. The film was stridently (but humorously) anti-authoritarian in that early to mid-60s way. I haven’t read the book.
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Sean C was trying to escape being typecast as James Bond and wanted to be considered a serious actor. He appeared in some very good movies,” The Hill” for example, but ultimately ended up mainly in action films. Interesting career , with a lot of potential for alternative career paths. Sometimes thought he should have done more sophisticated comedy in the style of Cary Grant.
Yes, all true though I’m not sure about Sean as Cary. Tony Curtis was Cary’s heir apparent (so much so that Tony had impersonated him on occasion). And then Burt Reynolds and perhaps Ryan O’Neal (mainly through the films of Peter Bogdanovich). Sean’s comedy roles (and there aren’t many of them) were broad and loud. Cary could be broad but he wasn’t loud. Still it would have been interesting
TC used a Carey Grant accent in Some Like It Hot, one of the funniest movies made, IMHO. A great talent, though it’s a shame his career stalled in the 70’s ( though he did do the Persuaders with Roger Moore, one of the first big budget tv shows).
I loved The Persuaders. Yes, his career did stall … but It’s hard to maintain leading man/ person stardom over a lengthy period. When you think of it, relatively few stars have leading role status in A Grade films over 20 years.