Patrick McGoohan

The book mentioned on the previous page entitled "Patrick McGoohan's Career" Edited by Michelle Perry gives a chronological listing of all Patrick McGoohan's plays, films and series beginning at the early days at Sheffield. It provides the leading cast list and other leading crew members of each project. It gives an abbreviated storyline of each film or play and, as they say, it is lavishly illustrated.

Here are a couple of extracts:

SILVER STREAK

(film); 1976. Twentieth Century Fox. Panavision, De Luxe Color. Location shooting: Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Director: Arthur Hiller. Exec. Producers: Martin Ransohoff, Frank Yablans. Producers: Thomas L. Miller, Edward K. Milkis. Music: Henry Mancini. Screenplay: Colin Higgins. McG: Roger Devereau. Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Ned Beatty, Clifton James, Ray Walston, Richard Keil, Fred Willard, Scatman Crothers, Henry Beckman, Steve Weston, Harvey Atkin, Delos V. Smith, Nick Stewart, Matilda Calnan, Stefan Gierasch, C-113m. (128m. version also).

A publisher, George Caldwell (Wilde) travelling on a train unwittingly becomes involved in Roger Devereau's plot to stop his art forgery dealings from being uncovered, when he witnesses the dumping of a body from the roof of the compartment next to his. The occupant of that compartment is Hilly (Clayburgh), the secretary of the murdered professor. But she didn't see the body and doesn't believe George's claim... until the next day when Devereau pressures her into playing secretary to an imposter posing as the professor. George takes matters into his own hands in an attempt to rescue the girl.

JAMAICA INN

(TV film); made in 1982, released in 1985. British. Harlech TV for Jamaica Inn Prod. Ltd. Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark. Exec. Producers: Hillary Heath, Stephen Bankler-Jukes. Supervising Exec. Producer : Patrick Dromgoole. Screenplay: Derek Marlowe, from the novel by Daphne du Maurier, McG: Joss Merlyn. Jane Seymour, Trevor Eve, John McEnery, Billie Whitelaw, Vivian Pickles. Peter Vaughan, Susan Dury, Michael Goldie, John Abineri, Tony Rohr, Edwina Ford, Pavel Douglas, Paul Nicholson, Dennis Patten, Bill Wallis. C-200m.

When a man dies at the hand of wreckers who beached and looted his ship, his widow, Martha Yellan (Pickles), commits suicide. Their daughter, Mary (Seymour), goes off to live with her aunt Patience (Whitelaw) and her mysterious uncle Joss Merlyn. But how does Joss make a living -- no one visits the inn except unsavory types who come at night. And what is behind the locked door at the end of the hall?