Jack's Return Home

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There was pressure from MGM to have more big-name American stars in the film, which was successfully resisted by Hodges. If there’s a worthy remake to take in (as it seems there must be in today’s market), I’d recommend the almost scene-for-scene black-exploitation flick, Hit Man (with Bernie Casey and Pam Grier). The villa is already inhabited by a cowardly house steward and a knuckle-dragging American gangster. This was later sampled by Vangelis, who used it on the 1981 Jon and Vangelis track The Friends of Mr Cairo.

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It’s certainly more common these days, but back then that style of protagonist was really coming into its own, and was more in response to what was occurring during that decade. Klinger was worried that the debut director might be overwhelmed with too many options, but Hodges said he and Atkinson got on very well.S. to its future subsidiary United Artists, which promoted it poorly, amidst worries the cockney dialogue in the opening scene would be unintelligible to U. He also noticed a substantial increase in women voting on the film in the eight months leading up to April 2002. Michael Klinger was involved in promotion of the film in the UK, using the experience from his background as a distributor to conduct a strong advertising campaign. In the process of redubbing the opening, the version of the film with the original dialogue was lost. Ted Lewis was one of the most visionary voices in fiction before he passed away pre-maturely, and his other works, particularly BOLDT, GBH, and PLENDER, are also works of genius in the world of gritty revenge tales.

MGM executives initially wanted Telly Savalas for the part of the "big man", but were impressed by Coronation Street actor Mosley's performance in fight scenes in Far from The Madding Crowd. Although she had appeared in The Avengers and A Family at War on television, this was Scottish-born Dunham's film debut. Raymond and Peace credit him not only with influencing their work but also with kick-starting noir fiction in the UK. His politics are in sync with the hard right: his sexism and casual homophobia, his description of foreigners as “wogs,” the disdain with which he describes his brother Frank’s ex-wife and her leaving him for a Pakistani immigrant.On its general release in the North of England, Chibnall notes it had a "very strong first week", before an unseasonal heatwave damaged cinema attendance. The exception surely was the state of Hawaii who somehow caught a foretaste of the said upheaval via the weather. That movie is just the kind of comedy I like and so people are always shocked when I don’t rave about it.

On occasion, he reminisces about his early youth – the last happy time he knew, we suspect – when he and Frank got on their bikes and explored the woods and wastelands on the outskirts of town. If anything, the film is even more hard-boiled and bleak than the book, as Hodges infused it with his experience as a conscript in the Royal Navy in the late 1950s. Not bad for little crime film and its story of a British underworld figure seeking retribution for his brother’s murder in the grim outskirts of England no one puts on the travel brochures.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The majority of the film's music was composed by Roy Budd, a jazz pianist and composer, who had previously worked on soundtracks for Soldier Blue and Flight of the Doves.