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Bookmark this pageA High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
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From Time Out Film Guide
Mackendrick paved the way towards the risky triumph of A High Wind in Jamaica with an equally unsentimental scrutiny of the innocent savageries of childhood in the underrated Sammy Going South. But his adaptation of Richard Hughes' novel was still received uncomfortably on its release, for widescreen buccaneering adventures were hardly expected to incorporate emotional and psychological resonances of the sort only recently locked up in the art-house visions of Lord of the Flies. Yet the colourful gusto Mackendrick brings to his yarn of pirate-captured children adrift between primitivism and Victorianism is pure cinema and pure entertainment, with comedy and tragedy ironically balanced in the combination of childhood dreams and adult dread.Author: PT
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- Posted on Jul 04 2011 14:30 I dont see Deborah Baxter credited in the cast of this film? She was one of the main characters after all? I would like to see her mentioned!
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Cast & crew
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Producer: John Croydon
Cast: Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Ben Carruthers, Lila Kedrova, Kenneth J Warren, Gert Fröbe, Nigel Davenport, Isabel Dean, Martin Amis full cast
Duration: 103 mins
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