William Lundigan

Follow Me Quietly

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Ann and Harry with a blank-faced mystery killer

Follow Me Quietly is only one hour long and so desperate to use its time well that it’s already running its first scene beneath the opening credits – a woman walking to and fro in the rain. From the way she’s pacing, and shielding the glowing end of a cigarette like a soldier in a trench, we can tell she’s a femme fatale. Inside the next five minutes all the other key characters have been introduced in a similarly concise way, by which point we know this is a thriller about a serial killer called the Judge, and that this is a story about driven characters – the killer, the cop on his … Read more

Dangerous Voyage

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William Lundigan and Naomi Chance publicity shot

Cheap, badly written and not very well directed, Dangerous Voyage (aka Terror Ship) is the classic British B movie, directed by Vernon Sewell, a journeyman who knocked out a lot of films like this. The actors gabble, the plot isn’t particularly convincing and psychologically it never quite adds up. But, if nothing else, Sewell has an eye for a lovely image, and there are plenty of those in a plot that starts on the British South Coast before venturing into the English Channel and then on to France, from where Sewell sends us one picture postcard after another: of Trouville, of Deauville, of Paris, of Honfleur and from many a charming spot along … Read more