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{{Infobox film
| name = Salt and Pepper
| image = Saltpeppos.jpg
| caption = Original [[film poster]] by [[Jack Davis (cartoonist)|Jack Davis]]
| director = [[Richard Donner]]
| producer = Milton Ebbins
| writer = [[Michael Pertwee]]
| starring = [[Sammy Davis Jr.]]<br>[[Peter Lawford]]<br>[[Michael Bates (actor)|Michael Bates]]
| music = [[John Dankworth]]
| cinematography = [[Ken Higgins]]
| editing =Jack Slade
| studio =Chrislaw Productions <br> Trace-Mark Productions
| distributor = [[United Artists]]
| released = 21 June 1968
| runtime = 102 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross = $1,750,000 (US/Canada rentals)<ref>"Big Rental Films of 1969", ''Variety'', 7 January 1970 p 15</ref>
}}

'''''Salt and Pepper''''' is a 1968 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Richard Donner]] and starring [[Sammy Davis Jr.]], [[Peter Lawford]], [[Michael Bates (actor)|Michael Bates]], [[Ilona Rodgers]] and [[John Le Mesurier]]. It was shot at [[Shepperton Studios]] and [[location shooting|on location]] in [[London]] and at [[Elvetham Hall]] in [[Hampshire]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Don Mingaye]]. It was followed by a 1970 sequel ''[[One More Time (1970 film)|One More Time]]'' directed by [[Jerry Lewis]].

==Plot==

Chris Pepper (Lawford) and Charlie Salt (Davis) own a nightclub in [[Swinging London]], operating under the suspicious eye of the intrepid Inspector Crabbe.

One night, Pepper finds an Asian girl on the floor of the club. Assuming she's drunk or high, he makes a date with her and thinks she responds. It turns out the girl is dying, and her death sets off a chain of events that puts the unlucky Salt and Pepper onto a plot to overthrow the British government, with the girl's dying words the key.

==Cast==
* [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] as Charles Salt
* [[Peter Lawford]] as Christopher Pepper
* [[Michael Bates (actor)|Michael Bates]] as Inspector Crabbe
* [[Ilona Rodgers]] as Marianne Renaud
* [[John Le Mesurier]] as Colonel Woodstock
* [[Graham Stark]] as Sergeant Walters
* [[Ernest Clark]] as Colonel Balsom
* Jeanne Roland as Mai Ling
* [[Robert Dorning]] as Club Secretary
* [[Robertson Hare]] as Dove
* [[Geoffrey Lumsden]] as Foreign Secretary
* [[William Mervyn]] as Prime Minister
* [[Llewellyn Rees]] as 'Fake' Prime Minister
* [[Mark Singleton (actor)|Mark Singleton]] as 'Fake' Home Secretary
* [[Michael Trubshawe]] as 'Fake' First Lord
* [[Francesca Tu]] as Tsai Chan
* [[Oliver MacGreevy]] as Rack
* Peter Hutchins as Straw
* [[Jeremy Lloyd]] as Lord Ponsonby
* [[Ivor Dean]] as Police Commissioner
* [[Beth Rogan]] as Greta
* [[Calvin Lockhart]] as Jones
* [[Nicholas Smith (actor)|Nicholas Smith]] as Constable

==Novelization==
About two months before the release of the film, per the era's customary timing, a paperback novelization of the screenplay by [[Michael Pertwee]] was released by [[Popular Library]]. The book sold extremely well (used and preserved copies are plentiful on the internet) and, commensurate with the film's popularity, went through several printings. The author was Alex Austin<ref name="uthrc/finding_aids/00786">{{cite web |title=Arthur Miller: An Inventory of His Papers |url=https://txarchives.org/uthrc/finding_aids/00786.xml |website=[[Harry Ransom Center]] |access-date=30 May 2022 |quote=Austin, Alex--271.15}}</ref> (not to be confused<ref name="librarything-austinalex">{{cite web |title=Alex Austin |url=https://www.librarything.com/author/austinalex |website=[[LibraryThing]] |access-date=29 May 2022}}</ref> with the later novelist of the same name), known most for three bestselling original novels: ''The Greatest Lover in the World'' (1956),<ref name="kirkusreviews-1956-A-A">{{cite news |title=Book Review: The Greatest Lover in the World by Alex Austin |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/alex-austin-2/the-greatest-lover-in-the-world/ |access-date=29 May 2022 |work=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |date=November 1, 1956 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="gbooks-9FNBAAAAIAAJ">{{cite book |last1=Austin |first1=Alex |title=The Greatest Lover in the World |date=1956 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9FNBAAAAIAAJ |publisher=[[Rinehart & Company]] |access-date=29 May 2022 |language=en |via= [[google books]]}}</ref> a satirical fantasy,<ref name="Brooker-Bowers">{{cite journal |last1=Brooker-Bowers |first1=Nancy |title=The Hollywood Novel : An American Literary Genre |journal=School of Graduate Studies |date=August 1983 |page=98 |url=https://escholarshare.drake.edu/handle/2092/665 |publisher=[[Drake University]] |quote=A Dissertation...In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctorate of Arts}}</ref> ''The Blue Guitar'' (1960),<ref name="barnesandnoble-1005990979">{{cite web |last1=Austin |first1=Alex |title=The Blue Guitar |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blue-guitar-alex-austin/1005990979 |website=[[Barnes & Noble Nook]] |publisher=[[Barnes & Noble]] |access-date=29 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="isbn-9780883918050-Blue-Guitar">{{cite web |last1=Austin |first1=Alex |title=The Blue Guitar |url=https://www.ipgbook.com/the-blue-guitar-products-9780883918050.php |website=[[Independent Publishers Group]] |access-date=29 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Austin |first1=Alex |title=The Blue Guitar. |date=1964 |publisher=[[Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.]] |location=New York |isbn=9780883918050 |oclc=1039686583 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1039686583  }}</ref> about an incestuous brother and sister, and ''The Bride'' (1964),<ref>{{cite web |title=The Bride by Alex Austin |url=https://www.librarything.com/work/5848024 |website=[[LibraryThing]] |access-date=29 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Austin |first1=Alex |title=The Bride |date=1964 |publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston |oclc=906840 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/906840 |language=English}}</ref> about the breakdown of a marriage. The same year as his ''Salt & Pepper'' novelization, he would publish ''Eleanore'' (1969) by [[Olympia Press]].<ref name="Copyright-1969-January–June">{{cite book |author1=Copyright Office |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1969: January-June |date=1972 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSwhAQAAIAAJ&dq=Alex+Austin+Eleanore&pg=PA86 |access-date=30 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="isbn-978-1-61824-563-2">{{cite book |last1=Malzberg |first1=Barry N. |author1-link=Barry N. Malzberg |title=Breakfast in the Ruins |date=1 April 2007 |publisher=[[Baen Publishing]] |isbn=978-1-61824-563-2 |page=402 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c3J0CwAAQBAJ&dq=Alex+Austin+Eleanore&pg=PT402 |language=en |quote=... line" ([[Oracle Books|Oracle]] sold half that and a novel by Alex Austin, Eleanore, sold according to statement 52 copies) but none of this was my fault, was it?}}</ref><ref name="isbn-978-3-548-22574-6">{{cite book |last1=Austin |first1=Alex |title=Eleanore |date=1991 |publisher=Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag |location=Frankfurt |isbn=978-3-548-22574-6 |quote=aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Erika Nosbüsch}}</ref> His final novel would be ''Looking for a Girl'' (1973)<ref name="Copyright-1973-January–June">{{cite book |author1=Copyright Office |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1973: January-June |date=1975 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BkMhAQAAIAAJ&dq=Looking+Girl+Alex+Austin&pg=PA95 |access-date=29 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> by [[Dell Publishing#Paperbacks|Dell]]. Unless he wrote other novelizations pseudonymously, ''Salt & Pepper'' was his only media tie-in.

<blockquote>(About Alex Austin) "A native New Yorker, has been a ranch hand, gold prospector and photographer, and he was once voted No. 14 jazz drummer in the country in a Metronome Magazine Poll. He has published fiction, poetry and articles in Harpers, The Saturday Review, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine."<ref name="isbn-9780883918050-Blue-Guitar"/></blockquote>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0063534|Salt and Pepper}}
* {{Amg movie|108746|Salt and Pepper}}

{{Richard Donner}}

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[[Category:British buddy comedy films]]
[[Category:British spy comedy films]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
[[Category:1968 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films shot at Shepperton Studios]]
[[Category:Films scored by John Dankworth]]
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