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colinr0380
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Re: Passages

#12101 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:06 am

Fred Holywell wrote:
Fri Dec 27, 2024 10:21 pm
Actress Olivia Hussey, at age 73.
Somehow that Deadline article misses Hussey's most key role as the lead in classic slasher film, 1974's Black Christmas, which tackles some quite adult issues surrounding abortion between the Hussey and Keir Dullea characters during its course. Speaking of adult issues, she is amazing as the underage component of the adultery film All The Right Noises in which all three members of the love triangle have their issues explored in a surprisingly mature fashion. I wrote it up in more detal here, but Hussey has perhaps the most interesting role of having to move from a (literally) childish infatuation towards becoming aware that it was just a fling for the guy and it might be selfish to destroy a family because of what happened, no matter how significant their encounters were for her.

She is also in 1982's Australian version of The Most Dangerous Game (and proto-Running Man/Battle Royale/Hunger Games) film Turkey Shoot, aka the UK government baiting with its alternate VHS title Blood Camp Thatcher! And she's amongst the ensemble cast of Kinji Fukasaku's 1980 take on the disaster film Virus!

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#12102 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Sat Dec 28, 2024 4:32 am

Was Hussey in the TV series of It, as Richard Thomas's girlfriend/wife? A small role but pivotal to the second episode.

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#12103 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Dec 28, 2024 5:44 am

Yes, and really good as the most 'innocent' and uninvolved of all being dragged into the situation, as a character not part of the initial 1950s encounter but just targeted because of her involvement with the Richard Thomas character. That may be an early example of the Stephen King twist, where the protagonists get saved from the situation but in the process have to contend with having sacrificed an innocent to get to that happy ending.
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#12104 Post by GaryC » Sat Dec 28, 2024 6:36 am

Having said all that, the first thing I ever saw her in (because I didn't see Romeo and Juliet until much later) was as Mary, the Mother of God in Jesus of Nazareth.

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Re: Passages

#12105 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Dec 28, 2024 2:27 pm

She's also in a film that got riffed on Mystery Science Theater 3000, with 1993's Quest of the Delta Knights.

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