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Directed by | Richard Donner |
Written by | Michael Pertwee |
Produced by | Milton Ebbins |
Starring | Sammy Davis Jr. Peter Lawford Michael Bates |
Cinematography | Ken Higgins |
Edited by | Jack Slade |
Music by | John Dankworth |
Production companies | Chrislaw Productions Trace-Mark Productions |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date | 21 June 1968 |
Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,750,000 (US/Canada rentals)[1] |
Salt and Pepper is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Richard Donner and starring Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Michael Bates, Ilona Rodgers and John Le Mesurier. It was shot at Shepperton Studios and 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 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 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 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 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[2] (not to be confused[3] with the later novelist of the same name), known most for three bestselling original novels: The Greatest Lover in the World (1956),[4][5] a satirical fantasy,[6] The Blue Guitar (1960),[7][8][9] about an incestuous brother and sister, and The Bride (1964),[10][11] about the breakdown of a marriage. The same year as his Salt & Pepper novelization, he would publish Eleanore (1969) by Olympia Press.[12][13][14] His final novel would be Looking for a Girl (1973)[15] by Dell. Unless he wrote other novelizations pseudonymously, Salt & Pepper was his only media tie-in.
(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."[8]
References
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1969", Variety, 7 January 1970 p 15
- ^ "Arthur Miller: An Inventory of His Papers". Harry Ransom Center. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
Austin, Alex--271.15
- ^ "Alex Austin". LibraryThing. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "Book Review: The Greatest Lover in the World by Alex Austin". Kirkus Reviews. 1 November 1956. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ Austin, Alex (1956). The Greatest Lover in the World. Rinehart & Company. Retrieved 29 May 2022 – via google books.
- ^ Brooker-Bowers, Nancy (August 1983). "The Hollywood Novel : An American Literary Genre". School of Graduate Studies. Drake University: 98.
A Dissertation...In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctorate of Arts
- ^ Austin, Alex. "The Blue Guitar". Barnes & Noble Nook. Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ a b Austin, Alex. "The Blue Guitar". Independent Publishers Group. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ Austin, Alex (1964). The Blue Guitar. New York: Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc. ISBN 9780883918050. OCLC 1039686583.
- ^ "The Bride by Alex Austin". LibraryThing. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ Austin, Alex (1964). The Bride. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. OCLC 906840.
- ^ Copyright Office (1972). Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1969: January-June. Library of Congress. p. 86. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- ^ Malzberg, Barry N. (1 April 2007). Breakfast in the Ruins. Baen Publishing. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-61824-563-2.
... line" (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?
- ^ Austin, Alex (1991). Eleanore. Frankfurt: Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag. ISBN 978-3-548-22574-6.
aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Erika Nosbüsch
- ^ Copyright Office (1975). Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1973: January-June. Library of Congress. p. 95. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
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- Films scored by John Dankworth
- 1960s British films