steed1991

I do understand that the 1/2 series of Danger Man is comeing out next year.

Special features:
• Commemorative booklet on the making of the series by Archive Television Historian Andrew Pixley
• Extensive image galleries, including many unseen stills
• mute trailers

Danger Man: The Complete Series 1: Network DVD

Steed

'Infamy, infamy. They've all got it in for me'

Moor Larkin

Patrick McGoohan’s simmering, compelling performance catapulted him into movies

I'm sure Mr. Pixley will have done better research than whoever wrote that line............

http://numbersixwasinnocent.blogspot.com/

cornershop15

I noticed that error myself, Moor, in the product description. He'd already appeared in Hell Drivers by the time he first appeared as Danger Man. Obviously the main thing is our ejoyment of the programme, and all those Extras, but I'm as annoyed as you by this kind of lazy research. It's usually the misspelling of actors on the back cover notes while the correct versions are on the front.

Agreed, Andrew Pixley does a sterling job, not just for Network - he also goes into great detail for the Adam Adamant booklet (BBC).

When you understand the past, the confusion of the present becomes clearer - John Betjeman.

Moor Larkin

In 1956 he was being talked about as as one of the most exciting discoveries in British films......

http://numbersixwasinnocent.blogspot.com/

cornershop15

When you understand the past, the confusion of the present becomes clearer - John Betjeman.

Moor Larkin

Not Film Review - Picturegoer. The magazine seems to have become a big fan of his, judging by the way it bigged him up over the succeeding year or two. Mind you, I'm not sure to what degree it was working hand-in-glove with the Rank publicity machine promoting their new signing. McGoohan must have been on the cusp of signing with the British Hollywood company around the time of Zarak.

I was reading just this weekend, in an old 1956 Daily Express, that the publicity posters for Zarak, with Anita Ekberg lying supine in veils, were labelled obscene by local authorities at the time and had been banned....

A moment in time here:
McGoohan Masterclass - Lesson 4 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

http://numbersixwasinnocent.blogspot.com/

cornershop15

Thanks for the link. So the film was in colour then ... We should be discussing Zarak at dpgmel's new thread but that's how things have panned out! I wish I had more 1950s film magazines but there wouldn't be enough time to read/space to store them.

I guess these were among the pictures of Mrs. Anthony Steel deemed to be "obscene":

When you understand the past, the confusion of the present becomes clearer - John Betjeman.

Moor Larkin

The second from the left on the top is similar, but the posters were drawings of course and there was no mature man in sight.... just the lady.....

They seem not to have been quite so prudish in America. I was reading in an American magazine that a cinema manager was giving away tea bags (I didn't even know such things had been invented then! ) in the streets, to promote the movie, with a flyer telling punters to come to his cinema if they wanted some more really hot stuff........