Based on a novel by Pamela Wallace, this made-for-TV drama stars Sharon Stone as Casey Cantrell, a woman who travels to London to deliver a letter to her late mother’s former lover, Lord Bredon (Paul Daneman), in the hopes of honoring her dying wish. But Bredon claims that he never even knew Casey’s mother. And when Casey romances his son, Michael (Christopher Cazenove), Bredon wonders if her plans may involve blackmail.
Donald Sharp (born 19 April 1922, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a British film director.
His most famous films were made for Hammer Studios in the sixties, and included The Kiss of the Vampire (1962) and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1965). Also in 1965 he directed The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, here played by Christopher Lee. Sharp also directed the first sequel The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966).
Among his other credits are Curse of the Fly, the spy-comedy Our Man in Marrakesh (1966), the fantasy Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon (1967) and the 1978 remake of The Thirty Nine Steps, starring Robert Powell. He made another foray into spy culture with his feature-length reprise of the gritty Cold War TV drama, Callan (1974) starring Edward Woodward.
He also played the character Stephen “Mitch” Mitchell in the 1953 British science fiction radio series, Journey Into Space.
Sharp also directed the first great British rock ‘n’ roll… read more