Lochinvar (1968)
0h 55min
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- Synopsis:
Peter Diamond held a lifelong passion for the swashbuckling adventure serials upon which he had been deployed, in the late fifties and early sixties as an actor and stuntman. At the beginning of 1968, actor/writer Michael Stanley approached him with an idea for an adventure series taking its cue from the opening line of Sir Walter Scott's famous poem Lochinvar: 'O young Lochinvar has come out of the west...'; Playfully, it replaced the notion of a brave knight with that of a maverick cowboy in olde England, fresh off the boat from Cowboy Country. It was exactly the kind of project Diamond was looking for, to enable him to branch out on his own. Thus he launched Peter Diamond Productions. Diamond knew Eric Flynn well, having him worked with him on the recent Hammer film A Challenge for Robin Hood. The feature-length pilot for Lochinvar had a three-week shoot, mostly on location around Buckinghamshire. Filming commenced in July 1968. If all had gone to plan, the pilot would have led to a regular hour-long series...but no one was interested and, pretty soon, Diamond's career was moving on again. Subsequently, the film stock was left to languish for nigh-on 50 years in rusty cans until his family sent them to Kaleidoscope and now it is released for the first time on video. - Actors:
- Eric Flynn, Alexander Doré, Michael Brennan, Noel Coleman
- Directors:
- Peter Diamond
- Studio:
- Kaleidoscope Home Ent.
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
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