Ken Hughes was an interesting character. The closest thing I have to a personal anecdote came from an old friend who was an assistant director: "Ken Hughes was the dirtiest man I ever met." I don't really know what he meant by that, and it may be unfair. But you can see little hints in his work.Hughes is best-remembered today for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and he did some of the better work in the astonishing sixties farrago Casino Royale (1967), but none of that really typifies him. His best film may be The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), which he wrote as well as directed, and which brought to a kind of climax his early thriller period.Hughes' first film, in 1952, was Wide Boy, about a lowlife blackmailer, not a distinguished work but an unusual one for its frankness about the anti-hero's Jewishness. Sammy Lee is a much more...
- 5/28/2019
- MUBI
Olinka Berova is as sexy as Ursula Andress, but even with a new woman producer Hammer’s She sequel doesn’t give her new She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed much of a chance — the story just sits there and the kingdom of Kuma is woefully under-produced. Good photography and acting help, but one doesn’t earn high marks for the Boys from Bray.
The Vengeance of She
Blu-ray
Scream Factory
1968 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 101 min. / Street Date February 26, 2019 / 29.99
Starring: Olinka Berova (Olga Schoberová), John Richardson, Edward Judd, Colin Blakely, Jill Melford, George Sewell, André Morell, Noel Willman, Derek Godfrey, Danièle Noël, Gerald Lawson, Zohra Sehgal, Christine Pockett, Dervis Ward.
Cinematography: Wolfgang Suschitzky
Film Editor: Raymond Poulton
Original Music: Mario Nascimbene
Written by Peter O’Donnell based on characters created by H. Rider Haggard
Produced by Aida Young
Directed by Cliff Owen
Aida Young took her first full producing credit for Hammer on 1968’s The Vengeance of She...
The Vengeance of She
Blu-ray
Scream Factory
1968 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 101 min. / Street Date February 26, 2019 / 29.99
Starring: Olinka Berova (Olga Schoberová), John Richardson, Edward Judd, Colin Blakely, Jill Melford, George Sewell, André Morell, Noel Willman, Derek Godfrey, Danièle Noël, Gerald Lawson, Zohra Sehgal, Christine Pockett, Dervis Ward.
Cinematography: Wolfgang Suschitzky
Film Editor: Raymond Poulton
Original Music: Mario Nascimbene
Written by Peter O’Donnell based on characters created by H. Rider Haggard
Produced by Aida Young
Directed by Cliff Owen
Aida Young took her first full producing credit for Hammer on 1968’s The Vengeance of She...
- 2/19/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Set in the grimy streets of early-60s Soho, The Small World of Sammy Lee is a lost gem of British cinema. Starring Anthony Newley as a strip-club compere who owes a large amount of money to a local villain, it was written and directed by Ken Hughes (best known for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and was photographed by the renowned Wolfgang Suschitzky. It also features a host of recognisable faces in smaller roles, including Steptoe’s Wilfrid Brambell, The Rag Trade’s Miriam Karlin, and Till Death Us Do Part’s Warren Mitchell.
•The Small World of Sammy Lee is released on Blu-ray on 14 November
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•The Small World of Sammy Lee is released on Blu-ray on 14 November
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- 11/4/2016
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
The photographer and cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky shot some 50 short films, most of them documentaries. A classic among these is the railway film Snow (1963), employing monochrome and colour, and directed by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films. Just eight minutes long, it is indeed short, and stunning, and marked a high point for the organisation, whose work continued until the 1980s.
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- 10/24/2016
- by Christopher Martin
- The Guardian - Film News
The celebrated photographer helped establish Britain’s first film cooperative and was a noted documentarist of London life
The photographer and cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky has died at the age of 104. As a photographer he was best known for his portraits of London life in the 1930s and 40s, especially the series of photographs he took along Charing Cross Road, the centre of London’s bookselling trade.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Julia Donat.
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The photographer and cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky has died at the age of 104. As a photographer he was best known for his portraits of London life in the 1930s and 40s, especially the series of photographs he took along Charing Cross Road, the centre of London’s bookselling trade.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Julia Donat.
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- 10/7/2016
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Caine's early films defined the look of an era, but with scores by John Barry, Quincy Jones and Sonny Rollins they also defined its soundrack
There is a kind of music in Michael Caine's voice: deceptively flat, barely inflected, emitting just the tiniest glints of detached insolence and laconic menace as it maps the area between the pre-war docklands community of Rotherhithe, his birthplace, and Elephant and Castle, where his family was rehoused in a prefab built on bomb-damaged land not far from the location of Shakespeare's theatres. Few people alive know more about the actor's craft than Caine, none is more gifted in the art of underplaying, and that voice is integral to his virtuosity.
But there is music of a more conventional kind in the films that made him famous – when the former Maurice Micklewhite rather unexpectedly became the model of a new kind of English leading man,...
There is a kind of music in Michael Caine's voice: deceptively flat, barely inflected, emitting just the tiniest glints of detached insolence and laconic menace as it maps the area between the pre-war docklands community of Rotherhithe, his birthplace, and Elephant and Castle, where his family was rehoused in a prefab built on bomb-damaged land not far from the location of Shakespeare's theatres. Few people alive know more about the actor's craft than Caine, none is more gifted in the art of underplaying, and that voice is integral to his virtuosity.
But there is music of a more conventional kind in the films that made him famous – when the former Maurice Micklewhite rather unexpectedly became the model of a new kind of English leading man,...
- 1/31/2014
- by Richard Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
Also in today's Daily Bite, BAFTA honours 100-year-old cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky with a special BAFTA for creative contribution to British cinema, reports Variety. The evening featured tributes to Suschitzky - who turns 100 next month - from colleagues including actress Virginia McKenna and directors Hugh Hudson and Peter Pickering, as well as from his son Peter Suschitzky, David Cronenberg's regular cinematographer. Suschitzky started his career in the 1930s and is best known for his work on Mike Hodges' 'Get Carter' and cult British children's TV series 'Worzel Gummidge,' which ran for four seasons in the late 1970s and early 80s.
- 7/20/2012
- IFTN
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