Monday, 17 July 2017

229 Curse of Simba ( 1965 )


This  very  un-pc  film  was   director  Lindsay  Shonteff's  follow-up  to  Devil  Doll  and  had  the  same  lead  in  Bryant  Haliday. It's  not  very  good . The  wafer -thin  plot  takes  a  long  while   to  get  going  and  the  film   lacks  any  character  you  could  give  a  stuff  about.

Haliday  plays   white  game  hunter  Mike  Stacey  in  Africa  who  crosses  into  the  territory  of  the  Simbasa  tribe  to  kill  a  wounded  lion, thus  invoking  a  lethal  curse. When  he  returns  to  London  he  is  plagued  by  nightmares  and  strange  visions  of  vengeful  negroes.

Lisa  Danielly  ( as  Janet  )

Sex :  No

Death  : Survives


Lisa  was  originally  Mary  Bodington  from  Reading, a  solicitor's  daughter  who  studied  acting  in  France. She  was  active  from  the  late  forties  to  the  mid-nineties  when  her  last  role  was  playing  the  Queen  in  a  dire  TV  movie  about  Princess  Diana. She  died  in  2014  aged  84.

Beryl  Cunningham  ( as  Nightclub  dancer )

Sex : Performs  an  extended  dance  routine  in  a  bra-top  and  tight  pants

Death  :  Survives


Beryl  was  from  Jamaica  and  worked  as  a  model  after  leaving  university  in  London. After   a  few  bit  parts  like  this  this  one, she  made  her  name  in  Italian  cinema  and  worked  there  until  retirement  in  the  early  eighties. She  published  a  book  of  Jamaican  aphrodisiac  recipes  in  1981. She  is  now  70.

Valli  Newby  ( as Nightclub  pickup )

Sex :  She  strips  down  to  a  bra  and  panties  expecting  sex  with  Stacey

Death : Survives



Valli  was  a  former  dancer  on  The  Ken  Dodd  Show  who  picked  up  a  few  minor  roles  in  the  early  sixties  after which  she  disappears.  







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