Sinful Davey

Sinful Davey is a 1969 adventure/ crime/ comedy film directed by John Huston and starring John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, and in early appearances Fionnula Flanagan and Anjelica Huston.

Sinful Davey
Theatrical poster
Directed byJohn Huston
Produced byWilliam N. Graf
Written byJames R. Webb (screenplay)
David Haggart (book)
StarringJohn Hurt
Pamela Franklin
Nigel Davenport
Fionnula Flanagan
Anjelica Huston
Music byKen Thorne
CinematographyEdward Scaife
Freddie Young
Edited byRussell Lloyd
Production
company
The Mirisch Corporation
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • 7 May 1969 (1969-05-07)
Running time
95 min.
CountryUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3 million[1]
Box office$550,000[1]

John Huston later said the film was "very good" but "spoiled beyond recognition" by the producers.[2]

Production

The film is based on the autobiography of David Haggart titled The Life of David Haggart.[3] The film, about a Scottish rogue, was filmed in Ireland, and much of the cast have Irish accents instead of the more accurate Scottish accent.[4][5]

Four members of the film unit making the picture in Co. Wicklow crashed in their Cessna plane at Glenmalure in 1967. All the occupants of the plane were injured to some extent, but John O’Connor, the location manager, was the most seriously injured. Huston left the film location to visit the hospital and stopped the filming.

Cast
gollark: There must be *some* way to store ridiculous amounts of data somehow.
gollark: It doesn't matter if they ban you, you can execute arbitrary code on their stuff!
gollark: ... though it runs on the JVM, so arbitrary code execution is probably impractical, to be fair.
gollark: ... no, it probably does, no way have they patched out all the ones which maybe exist in vanilla.
gollark: I think the easiest way to get useful amounts of computation, though, is to find an exploit in the server software allowing arbitrary code execution.

References
  1. Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 192
  2. The Innocent Bystander Robinson, David. Sight and Sound; London Vol. 42, Iss. 1,
  3. Sinful Davey at Allmovie
  4. Sinful Davey review at Time Out
  5. National Film Theatre


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