{"id":25732,"date":"2025-01-01T13:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25732"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:06:08","slug":"media-the-dailor-who-fell-from-grace-wiyh-the-sea-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25732","title":{"rendered":"FiLM REViEW: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wow! A pretty bonkers film, this. Part Mills & Boon Romance, part seventies softcore, and part psychological horror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s superbly shot, acted, directed, and so on. In many ways, certainly visually, and occasionally sonically, it\u2019s very<\/em> beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there\u2019s also a rather horrid rotten core to it as well. This mainly emanates from an awful lil\u2019 Hitler type character, called Chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A truly horrific scene.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For now I\u2019m going to leave my \u2018review\u2019 pretty basic. I\u2019ve long wanted to watch this film, as: I\u2019ve always loved the poster; I quite like Kris Kristoffersen, in the \u201870s; and Sarah Miles is gorgeous!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were parts of this film I could barely watch. Two parts. One involves the Chief dispatching the family cat, involving his hapless henchmen in the heinous act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wow! This scene is interesting.*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

*Can\u2019t see many films nowadays going places like this! And certainly not in the manner of this \u2018handling\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other? Well, I basically bailed on the film. Not \u2018cause I think it\u2019s bad. But because it was getting too dark for me, as I am these days. I need light, warmth, happiness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A more Mills & Boon type promo poster.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Would I recommend watching this film? That\u2019s a tough one, to be honest. But I\u2019m glad there are films like this out there. Because it\u2019s not your average humdrum pulp potboiler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it\u2019s a film I might come back to? But then I might not? Who knows? Who cares\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I certainly want to find out two things arising from watching it: what font they\u2019ve used in the titles, and on the posters. And who designed the superb Avco Embassy ident<\/a> that we see at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Often the sign of an interesting film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I watched the film on YouTube. And I see that it\u2019s also been made available to download, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A pair o\u2019 beauties.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jonathan Katz is superb as the troubled Jono.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I only really knew Sarah Miles as a dotty aristo\u2019 type, from an episode of Suchet\u2019s Poirot. It\u2019s kind of odd, alarming, and yet very erotic, seeing her as she appears here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here, nothing is merely surface appearances; the theme of her son spying on her lovemaking complicates what could\u2019ve been straightforward eroticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an intriguing footnote, Earl Rhodes, who plays the utterly loathsome Chief, continued acting for a while, before switching to being a cameraman. Later on he became involved with the Falun Gong martial arts\/religious movement. This latter activity saw him deported from China, back to the UK, in 2002<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOOTNOTE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This film is based upon, or at least shares a title with, a book by notorious Japanese novelist Mishima. From what little I\u2019ve read about him, he was a right wing nut job. So it\u2019s possible that in his book the Chief type character is the hero. Whereas in this film I\u2019d say he\u2019s certainly not. But it\u2019s all very interesting. Mishima committed seppuku, ritual self-disemboweling, after staging a failed \u2018nationalist\u2019 coup!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mishima, dressing the part\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow! A pretty bonkers film, this. Part Mills & Boon Romance, part seventies softcore, and part psychological horror. It\u2019s superbly shot, acted, directed, and so on. In many ways, certainly visually, and occasionally sonically, it\u2019s very beautiful. But there\u2019s also a rather horrid rotten core to it as well. This mainly emanates from an awful … <\/p>\n

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