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Fury at Smugglers Bay
UK 1961
produced by Regal Films/John Gilling Enterprises
directed by John Gilling
starring Peter Cushing, John Fraser, Bernard Lee, Michele Mercier, William Franklyn, Miles Malleson, Liz Fraser
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The peace of Smugglers Bay - so called because all its inhabitants live from smuggling in one way or
another - is threatened when a group of shipwreckers lead by Black John
(Bernard Lee) ... well, wreck ships, steal their cargo & kill the
crew. And since Black John knows a dark secret of the town's squire
(Peter Cushing), the squire convicts the wrong men for these evil deeds
against better knowledge. But among the convicts is the father of the
squires son's (John Fraser) fiancee (Michele Mercier), and so the son, along
with highwayman William Franklyn, tries to bring Black John to justice -
which the 2 of them do in the end of course, though Cushing has to die to redeem
his sins, catching a bullet intended for his son.
You would think this movie has it all: shipwreckers & highwaymen,
action & shootouts graced by a great performance by Peter Cushing
& stylish directon by John Gilling (who did many of the better
Hammer Gothics in the mid-60's), but somehow it doesn't quite click,
mainly because of a very feeble script: The usually very colourful
characters of the head villain (Black John) & the highwayman are not
fleshed out at all, the premise for Black John's blackmail - he being
the only one who knows Fraser is not Cushing's real son - is weak to say
the least, & for some reason, everytime there is a shootout the
script has Michele Mercier's character running towards it. Also,
some elements (like a town full of smugglers having to face even
worse smugglers) are just introduced at one point to never being
picked up again.
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