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<B>Screenplay.......Julian More</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Bobby Richards</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Graham Harris</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Peter Newbrook</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the Novel "Doctors Wear Scarlet" by Simon Raven</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Major Longbo..Patrick MacNee (The Avengers, The Howling, Waxwork)</B></div> <div> <B>Bob Kirby.....Johnny Sekka (The Message)</B></div> <div> <B>Tony Seymour..Alex Davion</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Goodrich..Peter Cushing (Starwars, A Tale of Two Cities)</B></div> <div> <B>Holmstead.....Edward Woodward (The Equalizer, The Wickerman)</B></div> <div> <B>Penelope......Madeline Hinde</B></div> <div> <B>Richard.......Patrick Mower  (Black Beauty)</B></div> <div> <B>Chrisaus......Imogen Hassell</B></div> <div> <B>Colonel.......David Lodge (Edge of Sanity, Two-Way Street)     </B></div> <div> <B>Honeydyk......William Mervyn (The Railway Children)</B></div> <div> <B>Diplomat......John Barron (Whoops Apocalypse)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: This is a real British period piece complete with lots of travel scenes, a rooftop battle and a policeman's narration--and of course Peter Cushing with Edward Woodward. If that doesn't scare you away, be prepared for the funkadelic acid orgy scenes and a cult harder to define than real cults. On the other hand you may enjoy the heretical anti-academia speech, the foundation of vampirism in the sexual deviancy of frigid women and impotent men, and the "Avengers" style action scenes, featuring - who else? - Patrick MacNee. Still for early 1970's Britain, the film features some surprises, such as the portrayal of African-British Bob, a positive hero, excepting the Colonel's reference to the fantasies he may be given to, due to his African background (despite his Cambridge education?). What is this British propensity to have produced a film with a legitimate if somewhat weak finishing point and then just switch venues and start what for all intents and purposes is another film. The result, of course, is to sap the energies of even the most patient viewer. As is so often the case, this film pairs half a professional cast with half stiffs, with the usual mixed results. It's like "Lucky Jim" if Lucky Jim became a impolite vampire instead of a drunk teaching assistant. The apostacy is equal in the eyes of the Dons.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Richard Fountain, Oxford Don. Bob Kirby, Fountain's pupil. Fountain is an expert in Minoan rites. Fountain is involved with a strange sect in Greece. Seymour is investigating the case for the foreign office. They arrive in Greece and meet the attache, Derrick Lombo. Richard is apparently having an affair with socialite Krysais Katamandris, though he is engaged with Penelope, Provost Goodrich's daughter. They cable him to stay put but he burns the cable and continues with his orgiastic activities. There, people are taking assorted drugs. The viewer is treated to a sixties style funkadelic orgy-video featuring multiple exposures. The orgy gets out of hand as one of the women is multiply stabbed. The investigators keep track of the cultists as they head off to one of the islands. All they've left is a medallion and a cryptic note saying water is best. Apparently before this trip, Richard had been a virgin. From what we've seen at the orgy, that is no longer the case. Penelope is followed by four bravos. Pretty soon she tries running. Bob, who saw the men following her from the veranda runs to try to help her out. She is trapped on a ruin, and Bob is badly beaten. The old woman whose daughter had been killed urged the men on and is eventually led away by the police. Somehow she knew that Penelope is Richard's wife and that Richard is behind her daughter's death. The attache' theorizes that Richard believes his impotence was caused by his father. He came to Greece to find his manhood. Hercules sacked the island of hydra, and Lombo seems to think this has a connection with these goings on. Some local folk say they saw someone fitting Richard's description and he was sick. The investigators head off in a jeep to track him down in the monastery on the top of the island. On the basis of rather little evidence, Bob infers that Krysais has given Bob some sort of illness and like the is having parts of him removed which grow back, ensuring some sort of immortality. Penelope begins to feel sick and sees a vision of Richard before her--rocks tumble on him and she faints away. Richard, in fact, seems to be in some sort of daze and is tended by Krysais. The investigators burst in on what appeared to be an immanent rape and murder scene amidst avengers music. They find Richard in a trance. The mules are taken by the cultists. Richard finally comes to. He says he was under Krysais' power and is afraid of her. Richard warns them that they can't try to escape the monastery yet and bids them take him out in the sun. He bids some deity to put strength in his limbs and deliver them from evil. Richard at least thinks that an eagle is swooping down on them five times. He infers that because there are six of them one of them must die. Lombo goes down to the town and sends Penelope back to the mainland. Krysais sees him and runs off to get help. Lombo tells the authorities that Richard wasn't guilty, and it is agreed the sooner he is taken out of Greece the better. Bob tries to convince the other agent that there's a truth to superstition. Lombo catches sight of Krysais, but it's a trap and Lombo ends up hanging from a cliff. The others go to help him leaving Richard to Krysais' ministrations--Bob comes back and finds her with a mouth full of blood. Looks like vampirism was behind it. They struggle and Krysais tumbles to the ground. Vampirism satisfies the sexual appetites of the otherwise impotent man or woman. The investigator is urged not to remind Richard of the events in Greece or there may be a recurrence of this vampirism. Penelope's father and Richard are a bit at odds as he tells Richard that he'll announce his engagement with Penelope that evening. Richard mutters to himself that Krysais won't like that at all. When he's by himself he imagines that he's hearing Krysais and he breaks the glass in his hand. Bob thinks that Krysais should have been killed back in Greece. With all pomp and circumstance, Richard is welcomed back to Lancaster. Unfortunately, he begins railing against academic hirelings, deceivers in academic gowns, pointing out a few specifically including Goodrich. Surprisingly, Penelope follows him even after his stock was so lowered from this performance that he'd be lucky to work as a dustman in Liverpool. Penelope brings him to bed but it looks like Richard's returned to his Grecian mode. Richard and Bob scramble around on the fine Lancaster tile roofing and things get precarious in the showdown.</B></div> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=2181&sourceid=39400659&categoryid=dvd_scifihor2" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=2181&sourceid=39400659&categoryid=dvd_scifihor2" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://a1204.g.akamai.net/f/1204/1181/24h/www.affiliate.net/affnet/images/vid_dvd468X60C.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" ALT="Check Out Our Horror Collection"></A>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>