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Salt and Pepper
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Two steadfast members of Frank Sinatra's self-styled "clan," Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr., are the stars of Salt and Pepper. The boys run a swinging nightclub in London's Soho district (which explains their awful "mod" wardrobe) and also reluctantly double as secret agents. Their current assignment is to put the kibosh on a half-baked military officer (John LeMesurier), who plans to hijack a nuclear sub and hold England captive. The film is securely locked into the 1960s, with weird camera angles and out-of-focus optical effects, plenty of compliant young miniskirted damsels, and Bondlike action highlights. Salt and Pepper was followed two years later by a sequel, imaginatively titled One More Time. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviCast
- Peter Lawford - Christopher Pepper
- Michael Bates - Inspector Crabbe
- Ilona Rodgers - Marianne Renaud
- John Le Mesurier - Col. Woodstock
Credit
Don Mingaye - Art Director, Lionel Blair - Choreography, Cynthia Tingey - Costume Designer, Charles Glenn - Costume Designer, Richard Donner - Director, Jack Slade - Editor, Johnny Dankworth - Composer (Music Score), Sammy Davis, Jr. - Songwriter, George Rhodes - Songwriter, Jimmy Evans - Makeup, Bill Constable - Production Designer, Ken Higgins - Cinematographer, Milton Ebbins - Producer, Andrew Low - Set Designer, Scott Slimon - Set Designer, Michael Pertwee - Screenwriter| Salt Water Tabby (1947 Film), Salt Water Moose (1995 Film) | |
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Salt and Pepper (film)
| One More Time | |
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 Original film poster by Jack Davis |
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| Directed by | Richard Donner |
| Produced by | Milton Ebbins |
| Written by | Michael Pertwee |
| Starring | Sammy Davis, Jr. Peter Lawford Michael Bates |
| Music by | John Dankworth |
| Cinematography | Kenneth Higgins |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) |
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| Running time | 102 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Salt and Pepper is a 1968 comedy film starring Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Michael Bates, Ilona Rodgers and John Le Mesurier. The film was directed by Richard Donner, who later would direct such blockbuster successes as Superman and Lethal Weapon.
It spawned a 1970 sequel, One More Time, directed by Jerry Lewis.
Plot
Chris Pepper (Lawford) and Charlie Salt (Davis) own a nightclub in Swinging London, operating under the suspicious eye of the intrepid Inspector Crabbe.
One night, Pepper finds an Asian girl on the floor of the club. Assuming she's drunk or high, he makes a date with her and thinks she responds. It turns out the girl is dying, and her death sets off a chain of events that puts the unlucky Salt and Pepper onto a plot to overthrow the British government, with the girl's dying words the key.
Cast
- Sammy Davis Jr. as Charles Salt
- Peter Lawford as Christopher Pepper
- Michael Bates as Inspector Crabbe
- Ilona Rodgers as Marianne Renaud
- John Le Mesurier as Colonel Woodstock
- Graham Stark as Sergeant Walters
- Ernest Clark as Colonel Balsom
- Jeanne Roland as Mai Ling
- Robert Dorning as Club Secretary
- Robertson Hare as Dove
- Geoffrey Lumsden as Foreign Secretary
- William Mervyn as Prime Minister
- Llewellyn Rees as 'Fake' Prime Minister
- Mark Singleton as 'Fake' Home Secretary
- Michael Trubshawe as 'Fake' First Lord
- Francesca Tu as Tsai Chan
- Oliver MacGreevy as Rack
- Peter Hutchins as Straw
- Jeremy Lloyd as Lord Ponsonby
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