Peter Hammond question
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I wonder if it's possible that Peter Hammond just didn't want to do any more Avengers? Perhaps he felt a bit put off by how all the young, innovative directors were pretty much dumped in the rush to film. I very much got the feeling from him that he is quite the immovable object when he's irked. Even Patrick notes in his book that leaving behind that group of directors was a mistake.
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The Peter Hammond directed 1969 film "Spring and Port Wine", starring countless well known UK actors is finally being released on DVD in March 2009.
A film that brings out a very different side to Hammond's style of direction. He doesn't go for the more unusual, stylistic camera angles but gets down and dirty with the rawness of Bolton and the domestic setting. He's got some really quite astounding actors to play with - James Mason in the starring role. The music is great as well.
A film that brings out a very different side to Hammond's style of direction. He doesn't go for the more unusual, stylistic camera angles but gets down and dirty with the rawness of Bolton and the domestic setting. He's got some really quite astounding actors to play with - James Mason in the starring role. The music is great as well.
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wonderful! I've been looking for this one. Especially for James Mason.Darren wrote:The Peter Hammond directed 1969 film "Spring and Port Wine", starring countless well known UK actors is finally being released on DVD in March 2009.
A film that brings out a very different side to Hammond's style of direction. He doesn't go for the more unusual, stylistic camera angles but gets down and dirty with the rawness of Bolton and the domestic setting. He's got some really quite astounding actors to play with - James Mason in the starring role. The music is great as well.
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Hammond and Leaver were not asked back, simple as that. In Hammond's case it was felt that he was becoming too experimental; he became known in the trade later as the 'mirror man' as he always wanted to shoot through windows, mirrors, glasses etc. Leaver was an equally big loss. My father maintains that Hammond's direction of Death of a Great Dane in Season 2 turned the series around, an idea supported by the Avengers Dossier.
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Peter Hammond is realitvely unknown and yet so much of his work is so distinctive. I was thinking that although we know very little of the man, he still has quite a body of work to look at enjoy and study.
What sort of information is there out there? Directors such as Hammond and Shaun O'Riordan had great style and flair for television directing.
What happened to their careers and where did they go?
Do you think there is enough material to build a wiki to combine all our knowledge about Peter Hammond or possibily a larger resource of some of the key brilliant but realitively unknown tv directors?
I think these people deserve to have more than a footnote in television history.
Would it be possible with our combined resources to find a large amount of Hammonds less accsessible work and upload it to be seen?
These are just some thoughts, what do you guys think?
What sort of information is there out there? Directors such as Hammond and Shaun O'Riordan had great style and flair for television directing.
What happened to their careers and where did they go?
Do you think there is enough material to build a wiki to combine all our knowledge about Peter Hammond or possibily a larger resource of some of the key brilliant but realitively unknown tv directors?
I think these people deserve to have more than a footnote in television history.
Would it be possible with our combined resources to find a large amount of Hammonds less accsessible work and upload it to be seen?
These are just some thoughts, what do you guys think?
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I like the idea, but I've never found much on any site anywhere. And Mr Hammond wasn't any help because he couldn't remember clearly; though if I hit upon a specific piece or scene he got animated. He didn't do interviews, or "making of" or retrospectives. Apparently was/is very private.thesaintlyone wrote:Peter Hammond is realitvely unknown and yet so much of his work is so distinctive. I was thinking that although we know very little of the man, he still has quite a body of work to look at enjoy and study.
What sort of information is there out there? Directors such as Hammond and Shaun O'Riordan had great style and flair for television directing.
What happened to their careers and where did they go?
Do you think there is enough material to build a wiki to combine all our knowledge about Peter Hammond or possibily a larger resource of some of the key brilliant but realitively unknown tv directors?
I think these people deserve to have more than a footnote in television history.
Would it be possible with our combined resources to find a large amount of Hammonds less accsessible work and upload it to be seen?
These are just some thoughts, what do you guys think?
I would love to find and see his earlier works since none of it is accessible to me. You lot in the UK are more likely to find it.
what I've found and bought has been a visual delight. He's the only person to ever get me to watch all of "Wuthering Heights" - a tale I loathe.
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That might have been me. Look him up on IMDB.com He worked constantly until 1993. His last work was several 2 hour episodes of the Jeremy Brett Holmes series.frank wrote:Someone did mention he worked consistently since the Avemgers so it likely is worth putting together
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Spring and Port Wine DVD delayed
I just read on Amazon UK that the DVD is delayed, "perhaps" to come out in 2010.Darren wrote:The Peter Hammond directed 1969 film "Spring and Port Wine", starring countless well known UK actors is finally being released on DVD in March 2009.
A film that brings out a very different side to Hammond's style of direction. He doesn't go for the more unusual, stylistic camera angles but gets down and dirty with the rawness of Bolton and the domestic setting. He's got some really quite astounding actors to play with - James Mason in the starring role. The music is great as well.
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I didn't sell out. I bought in.
I made you a Soul but I ate it.
Science isn't a Belief, it's Understanding.
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I made you a Soul but I ate it.
Science isn't a Belief, it's Understanding.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfuso/
http://blogs.delphiforums.com/alfuso/start