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Laurence Harvey
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When the shooting of the movie Silent Enemy came to an end Laurence Harvey announced loudly and publicly that his professional debt to fellow actor Sid James had been repaid. The two never spoke again. Silent Enemy was filmed in 1958 mainly in and around Gibraltar and told the story of Lieutenant Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb and the team of divers that attempted to thwart the Italian underwater demolition teams planting mines on the hulls of ships in the harbour. Promotional material billed the movie as: “The true story of British naval officer Lieutenant Crabb in Gibraltar during World War II follows him from his beginnings as a deep sea diver to his leadership of the British naval forces against a band of Italian frogmen. The Italians during the war were infamous for sabotaging the Brits by sea, but the intelligence of Officer Crabb proved to be too much for the Italian navy to handle in the end.”
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Harvey claimed that she had initially followed her mother's footsteps as a Ford model before turning to more dangerous careers, but her employment with the agency has not been confirmed. She did run a London nightclub, worked as a San Diego ranch hand, volunteered with the Boulevard Fire & Rescue company near the Mexican border and, eventually, started bounty hunting.
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In his late teens, Harvey became involved with Hermione Baddeley, an actress more than twice his age. He was subsequently married three times, to actress Margaret Leighton in 1957, whom he divorced in 1961, and to Joan Perry Cohn in 1968, the very rich widow of movie mogul Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures, and to Paulene Stone. Harvey had met Stone on the set of A Dandy in Aspic, and while still married to Cohn he became a father for the first time when Stone gave birth to a daughter in 1969. Eventually, Harvey divorced Cohn and married Stone in 1972.
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"In the early nineteenth century, the brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm (Laurence Harvey, Karl Boehm) are commissioned to write a family history for a local Duke. However, Wilhelm would rather spend his time dreaming of fairies, elves, knights and princesses. He loves nothing more than combing the German countryside collecting folktales for a book he hopes to write. At first Jacob objects, but eventually he agrees to help Wilhelm with his stories, as long as it does not interfere with their 'serious' work."
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In 1973 Laurence Harvey died, making the films completion even more problematic. Later the film negative was lost, leaving only two work print copies, one in color, the other in black-and-white. These two work prints provided the basis for the present version of the film, partially restored by the Munich Film Museum. In some sequences there are missing shots and in others camera noise can be heard on the soundtrack. Welles has ... occasionally dubbed in both Laurence Harvey and Michael Bryant voices on the soundtrack.
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When he was demobilised in 1946 Harvey travelled to London to find fame and fortune. James and his first wife Meg returned to South Africa but finding little work followed shortly after. By 1949 James was established in the U.K. and had already appeared in ten movies and made
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