tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665744582832084460.post3407987581463021114..comments2022-11-02T08:54:08.295+00:00Comments on Number Six Was Innocent - McGoohan and The Prisoner: McGoohan - Where Am I? - "I know of one in the British Isles, another in Germany and one here in the United States. They provided me with just the sort of dramatic gimmick I needed to say something that very much needs saying"Moor Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05275057917684784541noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665744582832084460.post-91802779372939993682015-12-14T22:06:01.274+00:002015-12-14T22:06:01.274+00:00Apropos of nothing in particular but just some joi...Apropos of nothing in particular but just some joining of the dots you may enjoy. Check out the scne in Chaffey's rendition of "Thomasina" fro Disney, starring McGoohan. The cat going to heaven on a staircase is a dead lift from the stairway to heaven in "A Matter of Life and Death" - with cat statues rather than people statues. It may of course just have been Disney ripping off Powell & Pressburger but I like to think Chaffey was a fan. Marks wrote Powell's career suicide movie, "Peeping Tom".Moor Larkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05275057917684784541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665744582832084460.post-18380168876135016542015-09-29T05:00:46.897+01:002015-09-29T05:00:46.897+01:00A possible connection, which may mean anything or ...A possible connection, which may mean anything or nothing is that Leo Marks wrote the story for The Webster Boy (1962) a feature film which Don Chaffey directed between working on the two Danger Man incarnations. <br />Chaffey was obviously a close associate of McGoohan on Danger Man and The Prisoner. <br /><br />Of course, it's entirely possible that Chaffey never even met Marks, or knew of his wartime background, let alone introduced him to McGoohan, but given Marks' knowledge of the spying world they would certainly have had plenty to talk about. Marks would also surely have known about any Cooler or Village-like installations, at least any relating to SOE.<br /><br />I suppose one strike against this idea is that Marks never wrote for Danger Man or The Prisoner (at least not credited), when he might have been an obvious choice if McGoohan had known him. JohnSnoreply@blogger.com