![]() ![]() ![]() In his biography of Alexander Mackendrick, Lethal Innocence, Philip Kemp has no hesitation in describing what this scene is meant to imply: This moment is quickly followed by reaction shots from two other characters observing the tussle: Chavez's First Mate, Zac (played by James Coburn), and an older girl, Margaret Hernandez (Viviane Ventura). 1 As this troublingly mismatched couple scramble about on the ship's deck, there is a sudden pause, a silence in which the two characters, face to face and on top of one another, appear to share a moment of recognition and seem apparently alarmed, excited and confused. In Alexander Mackendrick's 1965 film adaptation of Richard Hughes's novel, A High Wind in Jamaica (1929), there is a key sequence in which Anthony Quinn – playing the irascible pirate captain, Chavez – is tussling with a ten-year-old girl, Emily, played by the child actor Deborah Baxter. ![]()
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