Salt and Pepper (1968)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Richard Donner

Writer:

Michael Pertwee (writer)

Release Date:

3 July 1968 (Sweden)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

They held the fate of the world in their hands -- and dropped it!

Plot Keywords:

Nude Woman Murdered | Spy Spoof | Nightclub Owner | Buddy | Nightclub Singer

Cast

Sammy Davis Jr.	...	Charles Salt
Peter Lawford	...	Christopher Pepper
Michael Bates	...	Inspector Crabbe
Ilona Rodgers	...	Marianne Renaud
John Le Mesurier	...	Col. Woodstock
Graham Stark	...	Sgt. Walters
Ernest Clark	...	Col. Balsom
Jeanne Roland	...	Mai Ling
Robert Dorning	...	Club secretary
Robertson Hare	...	Dove
Geoffrey Lumsden	...	Foreign Secretary
William Mervyn	...	Prime Minister
Llewellyn Rees	...	'Fake' Prime Minister
Mark Singleton	...	'Fake' Home Secretary
Michael Trubshawe	...	'Fake' First Lord

Also Known As:

Salt & Pepper (USA) (poster title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sexual content and brief drug references. (2004 re-rating)

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

UK:A | USA:Approved (certificate #21652) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:G (original rating) | USA:PG-13 (2004 re-rating)

Filming Locations:

Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

Chrislaw Productions

Trivia:

Instead of a card reading The End the film ends with "It's Over" displayed on-screen.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Projectionist (1971)

Soundtrack:

I Like the Way You Dance

Goofy

An attempt to bring back the glory days of the Rat Pack. Both Davis and Lawford were middle aged men at that time. That's a little long in the tooth to play swinging cats in England. The plot is something about the men fighting off false charges after their hip night club is closed down. Full of jokes that probably would have worked better on Laugh-In, but then, maybe not.