mischief ( film )
with the headline: film:' mischief,' a tale of 50' s youth .
immortalised in the book and film white mischief, starring charles dance and greta scacchi, the unsolved case was for decades no closer to being solved .
click here for the review of the 2013 movie titled
mischief night .
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a lonely babysitter strikes up an unlikely relationship with a masked killer terrorizing her on mischief night .
the original title of the film was
heart and soul
. it was then changed to
getting lucky
. finally, just prior to release they chose
mischief
.
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this cast list of who was in mischief includes both lead and minor roles. (29 items )
henry is an olivier award - winning writer and has been a member of mischief theatre since 2009 .
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mischief cast list, listed alphabetically with photos when available. this list of mischief actors includes any mischief actresses and all other actors from the film. you can view trivia about each mischief actor on this list, such as when and where they were born. to find out more about a particular actor or actress, click on their name and you' ll be taken to a page with even more details about their acting career. the cast members of mischief have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
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i have read the book and also seen the film. though nothing great, both are enjoyable thrillers. i found the book scarier than the film as nell is much more menacing in the book .
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the fact the book and film have some differences that sound good in their own ways has me interested .
nominated for an academy award® for best animated film, a cat in paris combines stunning hand - drawn and richly colored animation, a jazzy soundtrack, and action - packed adventure to create a wonderfully charming film .
i really wanted to like mischief night, it looks so good and is such a competently shot film, the filmmakers were really trying to create a story they thought would work, but for me, it didn’t. ultimately, i couldn’t get past the story’s shortcomings enough to wholeheartedly recommend this film, i can only mildly recommend it .
... mischief' s characters are likeable and engaging enough to ensure that the movie' s raunchier moments feel organic .
jonathan is an olivier award - winning writer and the company director of mischief theatre working as a writer, actor and producer .
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she’s really good in it it – the booka nd film don; t pile it on too thick, honest .
mischief night is celebrated on october 30 th in very small areas of the east coast, primarily new jersey and certain parts of michigan. it has also been practiced in the uk and parts of europe. on mischief night, youngsters participate in pranks and minor vandalism including soaping windows, egging houses, toilet papering trees, play ditch ‘em doorbell, and other mostly harmless mischief as a pre - cursor to halloween the next day. in director richard schenkman’s mischief night, the holiday takes on a far deadlier significance .
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based on the belgian book series by gabrielle vincent, this charming and beautifully animated film has been a festival favorite around the world .
like'' mischief,'' a small - town fable about a sex - obsessed teen - ager. with its summery settings, pretty costumes and pastel hues,'' mischief'' is nostalgic and then some; it has the quality of something remembered in especially flattering light .
the utah film center is bringing the tumbleweeds film festival for children and youth to moab may 9 - 10. the only festival of its kind in the intermountain west, tumbleweeds will feature independent, documentary, and foreign feature - length films and short films at star hall .
mischief ,
in other words, is echt teen sex comedy, hitting its marks in the way a skilled carpenter drives home his millionth nail .
this new film from director óskar santos explores themes of friendship, courage, and acceptance and is a wonderful addition to the children’s adventure - film genre. its great performances, engaging special effects, and humorous, fast - paced story are sure both to entertain and to surprise you .
not exactly. “mischief night” does have a twist and since the promotional blurbs already give it away, it apparently isn’t a spoiler to reveal that kaylie and the masked man strike up an unusual relationship. “mischief night” is not about slasher stabs and body counts, but rather a fractured romance between two emotionally damaged individuals .
director for mischief theatre nancy is one of the core creative team at mischief theatre. she is an original cast member of lights! camera! improvise! , the play that goes wrong, peter pan goes wrong and the comedy about a bank robbery. since joining the company in 2009, nancy has had a hand in performing, assisting and choreographing all of mischief’s shows. she is thrilled to have had the chance to direct the new comedy about a bank robbery cast .
the film has been directed by michael radford (who also made the recent version of “1984”), and he goes for atmosphere rather than plot .
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henry is an olivier award - winning writer, actor and is the artistic director of mischief theatre. henry writes and performs for the company as well as producing .
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is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
its premise alone might be distinctive enough to pique the curiosity of viewers in desperate need of a different take on the slasher subgenre. but the characters in “mischief night” are not compelling enough to make their lengthy dialogue interactions interesting. explored stylishly, the idea at the story’s core can potentially power an intriguing movie. “mischief night” is not that movie .
the following book and film review is offered for katie’s 2014 book to movie challenge at doing dewey (for links, click here); bev’s 2014 golden age vintage mystery challenge; and tuesday’s overlooked film meme hosted by todd mason over at his sweet freedom; and the celebration of 1952 mysteries over at rich’s past offences .
by day, dino the cat is the loving companion of zoe, a mute child whose mother jeanne is a detective with the parisian police force. by night, dino serves as the nimble accomplice to nico, a skilled burglar. an enchanting medley of gravity and mischief, this french animated film is sure to delight both young and old .
matilde directed by vito palmieri 10: 00 | 2013 | italy you’ll never guess why matilde is collecting tennis balls in this clever and eye - opening film from italy .
on the plus side, the film is shot and directed beautifully. it looks absolutely gorgeous. the director makes wonderful use of the house and the shadows that lurk in all the nooks and crannies are used to great effect. there are also a couple of good gore set - pieces that stand out in the film that i wasn’t expecting .
i read this book years ago and found it completely compelling, unputdownable. i think probably afterwards there are a few questions, which you express very well, but it certainly worked on me at the time. i then very much wanted to see the film, but of course in those days it was really difficult to find an old forgotten film (even one starring marilyn) and i’m not sure whether i did or not. perhaps now i should re - read the book and try to see the film too…
late october setting. babysitter home alone. classic horror film on tv and a shape with a butcher’s blade stalking the shadows outside. call it a knockoff if you want, or an homage if you must, but given initial appearances, you would be forgiven for pegging “mischief night” as a “halloween” clone. or at least a copy of the 2013 “mischief night” (review here), which also features a girl home alone terrorized by a masked maniac. although much like greedo and han solo, there is some confusion over which one of the two shot first .
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film and t. v. : episodes (hat trick productions), the night watch (bbc), penelope in the treehouse (disney channel) josephine and the roach (short) .
mischief night is another film in the ever growing home invasion horror sub - genre that’s becoming so popular these days. the premise is beginning to feel tired and worn out, and the story is not as clever as the filmmakers would like it to be. a blind girl being terrorized by a killer is nothing new; it was done to much better effect in 1967’s superior thriller, wait until dark. although the story is nothing new, i have to give the writers a little bit of credit for trying to think outside the box. ultimately though, it just doesn’t work, the film has a problem with believability .
was it a crime passionnel as a result of erroll' s notorious womanising or a political execution carried out because of his right - wing connections? who pulled the trigger on the gun - and where did the assassin hide the weapon, which has never been found? for 66 years the gripping, glamorous scandal, which was later immortalised in the book and film white mischief, starring charles dance and greta scacchi, has shown no signs of being solved .
as for the starry amelie herself: the film at one stage debates whether she is jolie or belle. i myself am actually inclined to go with belle. but the movie itself: well, that must content itself with jolie .
it’s joe’s first day at a new school in a remote village. when he misses the bus, joe begins to run, and discovers that running helps him handle the grief of losing his mother in this uplifting film from the uk .
jirka and the white mice directed by karel janak 14: 45 | 2013 | czech republic in this hilarious film from the czech republic, we explore whether or not jirka can stop 3 mischievous mice from carrying out a plan to get even with a cat .
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i always liked the movie, which features good work from widmark and monroe – and the cast is fine all round in fact. roy ward baker was doing great work at this time and his short stint in hollywood – inferno really is a top film – stands up well .
that truly disturbing suspense character, the unhinged baby sitter, helped to get entrenched with mischief, charlotte armstrong’s novel subsequently filmed as don’t bother to knock with marilyn monroe. we begin in new york as peter and ruth jones await the arrival of the sitter to look after their nine - year - old daughter …
the following column, written by village of greenwood mayor jesse dwyer, has been published in the apr. 26 issue of the warwick valley dispatch: i am happy to announce that local residents will be getting a major discount to the hoboken film festival! tickets to individual movies are selling for
thanks colin (inferno just came out on blu - ray on 3 - d by the way from panamint) – in the nell is in a way less prominent but more plausible if less sympathetic – in the film she is given more to do but we feel a lot sorrier for her .
“mischief night” does not have a dementedly playful “natural born killers” vibe. nor does it have a dark richard ramirez night stalker and serial killer groupie feel. its main players are just “woe is me” yuppies with first world problems of the eye - rolling variety, which makes them as unsympathetic, and as boring, as is realistically possible .
october 30th – teenager kaylie fills in for her friend daphne as the paytons’ babysitter on mischief night. kaylie foils the pranks of local kids and listens to the warnings of neighborhood watchman mr. smiles. over the phone, kaylie and daphne discuss kaylie’s crush on a boy named graham. graham stops over for a brief visit and has an awkward encounter with kaylie .
“white mischief” is an elegant, almost luxurious retelling of the story of jock, diana and the earl, filmed on location in kenya at great expense and forming a sort of companion piece to “ out of africa, ” which takes place in east africa at the beginning of the same era but among much different sorts of people. in “white mischief, ” the period is lovingly restored - the clothes, the cars, the rambling architecture, the lifestyle that could not conceive that kenya would ever be independent, and was scarcely able to even see racism, much less decry it. happy valley is seen as a society of narcissists, in love with their own beauty and idle charm and existing primarily to drink and to gossip .
on the night before halloween, her father is heading out on his first date since his wife died, leaving emily home alone for the evening. her plans for a quiet evening are shattered when a mysterious intruder stalks and terrorizes her, not yet familiar with her new surroundings, she must use her heightened senses to protect herself and her family in order to survive mischief night .
sergio – thanks for this really interesting look at this film and book. i think you have a well - taken point about how difficult it is for a story to play out credibly in real time. it takes a very deft hand to do that well. still, this sounds like a solid, creepy psychological thriller. and i’ve always liked anne bancroft’s work .
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film and television: nutritiously nicola (double yay prod .); peter pan goes wrong (bbc); call the midwife (bbc); phone shop (retort); the javone prince show (bbc); frankie (bbc); breathless (itv); being me (misunderstood productions); charity (jimmy dean) and get griffin back (chris cory) .
the gigantic success of this film in france has made a national, and maybe soon international star of its 23 - year - old lead audrey tautou, who plays amelie poulain, the delectable young gamine employed as a waitress in a montmartre cafe. (in the united states, miramax' s formidable honcho harvey weinstein clearly thinks he has found in tautou the ooh - la - la box office magic that juliette binoche gave him in chocolat .) tautou' s great moon face - with its bambi eyes, louise brooks bob, rosebud mouth and pink hamster cheeks - is always looming prettily out of the screen at us, as she gleefully ponders what adorable mischief she will wreak next. because amelie is a leedle gairrl who has carried over the gorgeously vivid fantasy life of her sheltered childhood into adult life .
outside of mischief theatre henry teaches at lamda and is the co - artistic director of the trick for whom henry produced the critically acclaimed revival of mercury fur (old red lion theatre and trafalgar studios – nominated for best production & winner best design at the off west end awards 2013) and the uk premier of tracy letts’ superior donuts at the southwark playhouse for which he won the mark marvin prize at the peter brook empty space awards .
i really liked this movie, the plot is a simple romantic comedy, but it has all the charm and rebelliousness of a 50s teen flick combined with the fun and sexiness of an 80s teen film. plus, it has a more realistic look at teen romance than other movies of the time, i think. overall, it' s a good movie, and i' d recommend it .
the hero of'' mischief,'' which opens today at the gotham and other theaters, is a future dentist named jonathan, who is instructed in the art of lady - killing by a handsome and experienced friend (chris nash). jonathan is played by doug mckeon, who has matured a lot since'' on golden pond,'' but is by no means leading - man material, though he tries very hard .
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malcolm mcdowell not only appears in just two brief scenes, but they are each shot with only one single camera setup, ensuring that he was probably on set for about an hour, maybe two. “mischief night” tries getting its money’s worth by cramming all of mcdowell’s outtakes into the credits as a blooper reel. they paid for it, might as well use it, right? all it does is prove that his dialogue was largely improvised, further highlighting how pointlessly irrelevant his character even is to the script .
the biggest problem i had, and it was a film killer for me, is the reason for motivation or lack thereof for the intruder. there is absolutely no rhyme or reason as to why the intruder is stalking and terrorizing this young blind girl, it doesn’t make sense. are we supposed to just believe the intruder picked this girl and this house to randomly attack without anything to tie them together? i can use suspension of disbelief for a lot of films, but there has to be at least the tiniest of reasons to do so. at one point, the story was leading to what i thought was the reason for the attack, but that plot device turned out to be a dead end, leaving me again wondering what the motivation for this was all about. there is a scene where the intruder is asked why he was doing all this, and he says…”it’s mischief night. ” i’m sorry, but i need more than that for the story to make sense .
but kaylie is not at all like laurie strode, or even the blind girl in the other “mischief night” for that matter. kaylie is far less likable. in addition to pilfering her mom’s pills and raiding her host family’s liquor cabinet, kaylie mixes it up with the neighborhood brats pulling pranks and tells the fidgety baby in the crib upstairs to “shut the f * ck up. ” as the story develops, these traits help rationalize her motivations somewhat. but for the time being, they just make kaylie a punk .
that would be a novel idea for a horror comedy, or a twisted tarantino - esque vision of sociopathic behavior. instead, “mischief night” plays the premise plainly, without much of a spin that makes sense as entertainment. the problem is that kaylie and her stalker are whiney dullards. kaylie is an affluent teen girl whose biggest worry is that her best friend likes the same boy she does. the stalker is a married with children family man who laments that he has to pick up paper towels and lowfat milk before returning home later that evening .
after the masked man breaks into the house and begins a cat and mouse game with kaylie that doesn’t have a whole lot of viciousness involved, i’m willing to give “mischief night” the benefit of the doubt that it has another idea in mind. kaylie cannot possibly be so stupid as to nearly skinny dip with a slasher on the loose and the lack of urgency in their subsequent confrontation hints at something else going on. is she actually in on it with this presumed killer? maybe he is really her boyfriend and this is part of some fantasy role - play scenario ?
the little - known sleeper that it is, “mischief” is very much a cute and likeable movie with groovy songs from the 1950’s and brilliant performances from doug mckeon, chris nash, catherine mary stewart and kelly preston. sadly, this is one of the many 80’s classics that have been officially out of print for a long time. i would like to see it released on dvd soon and i know that you probably would too. it has been seen recently on cable with a crisp new picture, so lets hope that fox sees fit to release it on dvd soon ...
this was also the way the movie version was structured, coming in at a brisk 76 minutes. it made a number of smart amendments too. shot entirely in the studio, it makes a virtue of respecting the unities of time by also making the space more important. re - named the mckinley, the hotel is now the sole space for the film – the jones’ reception is merely in the ballroom and jed’s girlfriend lyn is a singer in the hotel bar and nell can hear her performance piped in to the room via in intercom system .
as directed by mel damski and written by noel black,'' mischief'' touches familiar teen - movie bases in an insistently buoyant way; the obligatory fight - at - the - drive - in scene, the one in which the milkshakes end up in somebody' s lap, is filmed in candy colors and executed to the tune of'' at the hop.'' mr. damski' s comic timing can be quite good, the better to suit some of the movie' s better pratfalls. but there are times when he and mr. black appear to be working at cross - purposes .
theatre includes: recently, the comedy about a bank robbery (criterion theatre), the play that goes wrong (duchess theatre, uk and international tour – writer / actor, olivier award and whatsonstage award best new comedy), peter pan goes wrong (apollo theatre, uk tour and pleasance, london – writer / actor, 2014 off west end awards nominations for best production and best ensemble), the nativity goes wrong (writer, mischief theatre and reading rep co - production), lights! camera! improvise! (pleasance, edinburgh, soho theatre, arcola and underbelly - actor, spirit of the fringe award 2013) and the busy body (southwark playhouse) .
theatre includes: the comedy about a bank robbery (criterion theatre), the play that goes wrong (west end, uk and international tour - writer / actor, olivier award and whatsonstage award best new comedy), peter pan goes wrong (west end, uk tour, pleasance, london - writer / actor), the nativity goes wrong (writer, mischief theatre and reading rep co - production), lights! camera! improvise! (pleasance, edinburgh, soho theatre, arcola, underbelly and krakow improfest - actor, improviser, producer, spirit of the fringe award 2013), rachael’s café (old red lion - general manager) and happy birthday simon (orange tree - actor) .
two of spain’s most beloved comic - book characters—zip and zap—come to life in this rollicking adventure. with summer coming, the twin brothers are caught stealing the answers to their final exams, so instead of having a fun - filled vacation, zip and zap are sent to a strict boarding school run by a no - nonsense headmaster named falconetti. the school is worse than they could have imagined. fun is absolutely forbidden, and the suspicious falconetti and his security guards seem to watch their every move. but that doesn’t stop the brothers from enjoying their summer. after making new friends, they form the marble gang, and their ongoing mischief and resistance to authority lead them to discover a mysterious secret—one begging to be solved !
amelie' s charm will be a moot point for many people. tautou has got an attractive address to the camera, and her bohemian eccentricity hints at holly golightly or even - at two or three removes - sally bowles. she has a lovely, easy rapport with kassovitz, although, as she is apart from him for most of the film, this aspect of her performance is not tested as hard as it might be. but there is a curious sequence in which amelie punishes the local greengrocer for being horrible to his assistant, played by debbouze. she breaks into his apartment and rearranges everything just to mess with his head. does jeunet know that this is precisely what charles manson claimed to love doing ?
i agree with my fellow reviewer that this movie is a lost gem. however, i would not consider it a typical 80' s teenage sex movie. this movie is an eloquent and witty portrayal of love - stuck adolescence at its most hilarious. while the film does contain nudity and boozing, these situations are presented in such a way as could only offend the most prudish of characters. there is something innocent and refreshing about the emotions that occompany this period of every mans life and this movie bring that out perfectly. i have not seen this title in a video store in a long while, so i purchased it from amazon. the pg - 13 version shows up on comedy central every so often also. i recommend giving it look if you get the chance .
jeunet' s zappy directing style is similar to that very tiresome paris - fantasy: baz luhrmann' s moulin rouge - but more intelligent, and less stroboscopic. (interestingly, amelie' s cafe is called les deux moulins, and in a way we do have two moulins on at the moment .) at one point, amelie impulsively grasps the arm of a blind man and chatteringly points out all the quirky things that he can' t see: the batty widow of a drum major who wears his uniform, the crinkly eyes of a florist, etc. it' s a paradigm of the film. jeunet treats us like the blind man, grabbing us and making us look at the zany details his camera zooms in on. and amelie is just so sweet that the poor blind man doesn' t do what a blind man would do in real life: break his white stick over the little busybody' s glossy, chestnut coiffure .
director: ‘table’ (liverpool institute of performing arts) ); ‘exactly like you’ (festival spirit award, the vaults 2017 / edinburgh festival 2016);' chef' (soho theatre 2015 / fringe first winner, edinburgh festival 2014); ‘screenwriters graduation showcase’ (the national film & television school / soho theatre 2015 - 2017’; ‘i’m not that kind of guy’ (the vaults, paines plough round about 2016); ‘mary louise’ (the vaults 2015);' evita' (mt4youth / belfast 2015);' comets’ (winner ideastap summer brief 2014 / latitude / festival no 6); ‘people like us’ (pleasance); ‘snow white’ (the old vic / educational tour); ‘a writer’s response to chavs by owen jones’ (lyric hammersmith); ‘present tense’ (live theatre); ‘brave new worlds’ (soho theatre); ‘life support’ (york theatre royal); ‘old vic new voices 24 hour plays 2011’ (the old vic) .
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nothing new on the narrative front, but damski' s approach to the mid - 50' s feel (and the extensive usage of popular songs from the era) helps to keep this amiable comedy afloat .
this is a hilarious movie! filled with lots of laughter, from beginning to end. loved it! !
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in 1956, the shy jonathan' s luck with girls changes when he wins the rebellious gene as a friend in his last year of high school. gene is adored by many girls and manages to teach jonathan... see full summary »
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in 1956, the shy jonathan' s luck with girls changes when he wins the rebellious gene as a friend in his last year of high school. gene is adored by many girls and manages to teach jonathan a few lessons. gene himself would rather just be with one girl: his girlfriend bunny. however, since his father is poor, her parents don' t accept him .
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at about 48: 42, gene and bunny are heading out of town for a little getaway. the scenes show them on gene' s motorcycle crossing the bridge that says
nelsonville
while they are leaving town (with the sign eventually at their backs). in the next shot we see them on a curving road with a nice view of the valley on the right and they are coming toward the camera while they are leaving town. at the beginning of the movie we see gene' s moving truck making its way into town but they show the truck going in the same direction as gene and bunny were going on the motorcycle while they were leaving town .
: you may not be the biggest stud, jonathan. but, at least you have a family .
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the same attitude also colors the characters, who enact a 1950' s story that makes sense only as a present - day adult male fantasy. this is a tale in which the girl is haughty and gorgeous, the boy is horny and unappealing and lightning - or at least what passes for it in movies of this genre - manages to strike all the same .
jonathan is obsessed with the beautiful marilyn (kelly preston), who initially won' t give him the time of day. eventually, she is won over by his funny tricks, such as trying to look up her dress in the classroom.'' what i like about you is that you don' t look dangerous, even though you are,'' marilyn eventually tells him, about the time she decides to fulfull his wildest dreams. it' s a nice compliment, but it doesn' t have anything to do with the jonathan we see .
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a sequence in which the principals watch'' rebel without a cause'' and then re - create its famous'' chicken'' race, for instance, may make an interesting homage, but it has no connection with these characters. on screen, it becomes little more than an excuse for one of the characters to smash up his father' s car. and why the kids begin horseback riding midway through the movie is anybody' s guess .
kelly preston plays marilyn as a nubile centerfold, but that seems to have been what was expected of her. mr. nash and catherine mary stewart, who are appealing as a subsidiary couple, take a back seat to jonathan and marilyn both literally and figuratively. mr. nash makes a strong, sympathetic impression, but he, too, is hampered by the movie' s cosmetic concerns. sleeping all night in a field after recklessly crashing the prom, for instance, he wakes up with every hair in place. that' s just too much, even for brylcreem .
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basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
roger ebert' s speech on empathy for the
11th hour
series on april 9th, 1994, being republished here in honor of his birthday june 18 .
roger ebert was born on this day in 1942, and died a little over five years ago. i owe a good part of my success…
a look back at robert zemeckis' half - animated classic, who framed roger rabbit, on its 30 - year anniversary .
a tribute to the late tab hunter, a gay matinee idol and hollywood trailblazer .
in the years between the first and second world wars, the more affluent british settlers in kenya developed a lifestyle that became famous for its luxury and scandalous for its decadence. in their so - called happy valley, on the slopes of the aberdare mountains where the climate was close to home, they built their ranches and villages, made a lot of money and tried to ignore the war clouds gathering over europe. some of them worked hard and most of them partied hard, and as war grew closer their detachment seemed more and more of a scandal .
then, on the eve of war, the settlement was rocked by a murder that is still one of the most famous crimes of the british empire. an older rancher, sir henry “jock” broughton (joss ackland), had returned from a trip to england with a wild young bride named diana (greta scacchi). she had married for money, a fact sir henry had few illusions about, but what he did not expect was that she would so quickly flaunt her cynicism in the colony. she fell under the power of the handsome young earl of erroll (charles dance), a shameless womanizer, and their affair scandalized the colony until the day of jan. 24, 1941, when the earl was found shot dead in his car, not far from an exclusive club where he had last been seen with diana .
broughton was charged with the murder, but eventually acquitted, and the case remains officially unsolved to this day. the one survivor who might have been sure about the identity of the killer, diana broughton, died a few years ago. but the case lives on in british memory, partly because it occurred in a colony that was living in luxury while the homeland itself was enduring the battle of britain and the terrors of world war ii .
but he makes the mistake of falling in love with the beautiful young diana, and he makes another mistake, too: he goes broke. diana is carefree as the wind and hardly even wants to hurt jock' s feelings. she is simply too selfish to think much about them. when the earl sees the opportunity for an entertaining affair, both he and diane make the mistake of underestimating jock - of pushing him too far, too publicly .
i think that is the right decision. a languorous scene at a party gradually trails down into a lazy, low - key orgy, and the tone is just right: these people are almost too comfortable to be perverted. radford is especially good at finding the tensions in a party scene, where various couples are changing partners, and not everybody likes it, but nobody misses it .
one of the keys to the movie' s re - creation of happy valley is in the large supporting cast, including john hurt as a rough - hewn local farmer who is also in love with diana; sarah miles as a promiscuous local woman whose affairs feed the gossip mills, and the late trevor howard as a local landowner who tries to give jock some good advice .
all of these people come together to create a genuinely interesting period piece, in which nobody is quite sure who shot the earl of erroll, but most people would agree he had it coming to him. ”
an interview with terry gilliam, director of
the man who killed don quixote .
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a british aristocrat is shot dead amid the lap of luxury in colonial kenya .
the killing of josslyn hay, 22nd earl of erroll, in 1941 gripped a nation caught up in the grind of war .
for 66 years, theories have ranged from a crime of passion brought about by the earl' s notorious womanising to a political assassination based on his right - wing connections .
but now the mystery has been solved after dramatic new evidence came to light .
months after the murder, sir' jock' delves broughton stood trial for the murder of erroll .
the dead man had been sleeping with his wife diana - so there was a clear motive .
in an eerie echo of the past, this week delves broughton' s granddaughter, the brilliant fashion stylist isabella blow, apparently took her own life at her cotswolds home .
now amazing new tapes and witness accounts have finally solved the mystery that has baffled detectives for decades .
the author of a new book on east africa, elspeth huxley' s a biography by christine nicholls was given the crucial evidence by a fellow writer shortly before her death .
it' s a hugely exciting discovery ,
says nicholls .
some commentators suggested that it was diana who shot her lover when he tried to end the relationship; others that erroll was murdered by one of his other jealous lovers, or a cuckolded husband who couldn' t bear the shame .
there have even been claims that erroll' s death was due to a secret service conspiracy, and that he was executed because he was suspected of collaborating with the germans in wartime and belonged to a renegade group including the duke of windsor and rudolf hess. people have always been enthralled by this mystery .
even at the height of the second world war, the trial transfixed britain and marked the beginning of the end for kenya' s hedonistic colonial elite .
as europe and other parts of the world endured world war ii, the fast - living upper classes carried on as though nothing had changed from their pre - war hey - day. they drank to excess, took cocaine, abused their servants and slept with each other' s wives .
josslyn victor hay, 22nd earl of erroll and hereditary high constable of scotland, was a serial womaniser and gambler, who specialised in seducing rich married women .
twice - married (his second wife died of heroin addiction), the predatory erroll was feared by husbands, but at the start of the war he was appointed assistant military secretary for kenya, despite a previous link with the fascists .
his fate was sealed when in 1940 a new english couple arrived in the colony .
sir' jock' delves broughton, 56, and suffering from thrombosis, was accompanied by his new wife, diana .
thirty years his junior with deep blue eyes and elegant, arched eyebrows, she was well aware of her powers of attraction .
diana had embarked on an affair with a fellow passenger even on their way to nairobi .
soon after there arrival, diana met erroll and, despite the fact that he already had a mistress, soon became his lover .
but their passion was shortlived. on the night of january 24 1941, erroll was found shot dead in his car .
delves broughton had appeared sanguine about the affair, and on the evening of the murder, erroll had dined with diana and his husband before he took his lover dancing .
half an hour later after dropping her off, he was shot in his buick .
as the obvious suspect, delves broughton was brought to trial for the murder .
the media coverage threw into sharp relief the extravagant lifestyles and social mores of the idle rich in africa while britain suffered wartime rationing and nightly raids by german bombers .
in what was considered a blatant miscarriage of justice delves broughton was found not guilty, but there was no proof to convict him .
diana stayed on in kenya while the disgraced delves broughton sailed home. several days after arriving back in england he committed suicide in a bedroom at the adelphi hotel in liverpool, by injecting a lethal overdose of morphine .
delves broughton, who was wearing a pair of white plimsolls, had slipped into the back of erroll' s car while erroll was saying goodbye to diana .
the killer was then picked up further along the road at a pre - arranged spot by another car, which drove him home .
the tape recording i have gives the name of the driver who collected delves broughton ,
says christina nicholls.
mischief is a 1985 american teen comedy film starring doug mckeon , chris nash , catherine mary stewart and kelly preston . the film was directed by mel damski and written by noel black . the original music score was composed by barry de vorzon . set in nelsonville , ohio , in 1956 , its soundtrack features many popular songs from the era . 
mischief is a 1985 american teen comedy film starring doug mckeon, chris nash, catherine mary stewart and kelly preston. the film was directed by mel damski and written by noel black. the original music score was composed by barry de vorzon. set in nelsonville, ohio, in 1956, its soundtrack features many popular songs from the era.
mischief is a 1985 american teen comedy film starring doug mckeon, chris nash, catherine mary stewart and kelly preston. the film was directed by mel damski and written by noel black. the original music score was composed by barry de vorzon. set in nelsonville, ohio, in 1956, its soundtrack features many popular songs from the era.