Albino

[Isabel Alves]

I found a film " ALBINO" with Mr. Lee. Somebody has some comment on him. :)

[Marije Kraa]

Originally Posted by Isabel Alves

I found a film " ALBINO" with Mr. Lee. Somebody has some comment on him. :)

Looked through on the internet but didn't find anything and I've never heard of it

[Isabel Alves]

http://product.half.ebay.com/Albino_...49696QQtgZinfo

I found just that that is in the page. It can also be one more mistake as there were already other... The title I thought interesting, I thought to be the film a drama. Because it could refer to the problem of health: Albino they are people with total absence of melanina in the organism (pigment that gives color to the skin)

[Andrés Verdú]

Hello everyone,


Isabel, I don't really know much about this film, because I haven't watched it, but there is an entry about it on IMDb which can be accessed here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074108/. This film was released in the UK under the title Death in the Sun.


I can also add some information from the book Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History, by Jonathan Rigby, who states the following:


"[T]he film's rape-revenge scenario — based on a true story — transfers Death Wish to the veldt with numerous sadistic details outstripping anything in Lee's horror pictures.
"Though top-billed, Lee's role as a firm but fair military policeman is fairly peripheral, conceding centre stage to James Faulkner's grief-crazed Terrick, who becomes an outlaw in seeking to avenge the rape and murder of his beautiful fiancée (Sybil Danning). The terrorist perpetrator, played by the German actor Horst Frank, is perhaps the most repulsive villain ever committed to film, an albino negro who rapes the heroine in a scene of eye-popping unpleasantness. 'She began to scream and scream and scream,' he drools later. 'You should've heard her. It was quite wonderful — and very stimulating.' He finally expires with mud all over his face, looking like a Black and White Minstrel and observing that 'Killing me won't change anything.'
"The film was criticised for placing South Africa's political problems in an exploitative context, though Lee himself did what he could by adding 'lines to the effect that justice should relate equally to black and white' and insisting on the casting of black actor Sam Williams. 'I can't think of a better way to help integration, myself,' he pointed out. 'An integrated film crew and cast.' As the so-called 'big mambo', Lee's Bill is seen carousing in a crowded military bar rocking to the sing-song strains 'Parlez-vous' and performs mock surgery on an inebriated colleague. 'Before an operation,' he announces, 'it is customary to administer an anaesthetic. Snakebite serum has proved to be extremely effective ... The injection will be administered from the rear. Prepare the patient!'
Acting as an uproarious conterpoint to the film's many scenes of genuine torture, the fun is brought to a sudden halt by the ringing of alarm bells and the moving discovery of Sally's corpse. Bill reappears in shorts, mobilising his men with the rousing observation that 'One false move and you will destroy everything that we have taken years to achieve: the rule of law and order, and justice, and the support of the Africans.' Though urbane and relaxed — and presumably drawing upon his own wartime experience with Rhodesia's police force — Lee is overshadowed by the film's parade of atrocities, which makes it a rip-roaring success when considered purely as exploitation. It's also beautifully photographed by Wolfgang Treu.
"'How actors such as Lee and Trevor Howard (as the dead girl's rheumy-eyed father) can find themselves in films like this is a puzzle,' commented David Castell in Films Illustrated. 'They should have stern words with their agents.' It was, of course, no puzzle at all. With the British film industry entering its ignominious death throes, Lee considered his recent engagements to be 'better than sitting about, but there still remained more sitting about than I liked.' He had been assured that his performance as Scaramanga would waft him 'to the fleece-lined clouds of guaranteed and well-paid work.' But now, some 12 months after The Man With the Golden Gun had opened, it was becoming clear that those clouds existed only in America; angry storm clouds were all that could be seen gathering over British studios. 'Reviewing the situation, it occurred to me that an actor must go where the taxes are,' Lee concluded. His stint at Paramount for Poor Devil and the success of his recent US promotional tours — together with the urgings of Billy Wilder, Richard Widmark and Universal executive Taft Schreiber — had convinced him, in close consultation with Gitte, to move to Hollywood."
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Rigby, Jonathan, Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History, (Surrey, England: Reynolds and Hearn Ltd., 2001), p. 169.

Warmest regards,

[Isabel Alves]

Thank you very much, André for the information.
You always very kind.
I am one of those people " slow" with the computer, I am still learning how to work to find the things.
I could read the comment of the address that you posted.
I believe that I would cover the eyes in moments of cruelty, but I feel like seeing the film, mainly because Mr. Lee is the first of the actors' list.

[Marije Kraa]

Originally Posted by Isabel Alves

Thank you very much, André for the information.
You always very kind.
I am one of those people " slow" with the computer, I am still learning how to work to find the things.
I could read the comment of the address that you posted.
I believe that I would cover the eyes in moments of cruelty, but I feel like seeing the film, mainly because Mr. Lee is the first of the actors' list.

Frankly I'll skip it

I mean some luvvin' in a movie is one thing but rape...*shudders* hate it

[Andrés Verdú]

Hello everyone,

I don't know whether this link has been posted elsewhere on CLW, but I thought I would add it here, as it is particularly relevant to the topic in hand. For those of you who are interested in seeing what the film Albino (aka "Whispering Death") looks like, someone has uploaded a brief clip (which looks like it could be a trailer) on YouTube.com. The clip can be accessed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Vjp4DX2l4. Happy viewing!!

Warmest regards,

Andrés

[Isabel Alves]

Thank you, Andrés!

It was very pleasant to see that. I wait one day to attend in the complete

[Vicky Gavri]

Most interesting :)