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Written by James M. Tate / 10/16/2022 / No comments / action , british tv , espionage , hugh mcdermott , jacqueline ellis , mystery , patrick mcgoohan , sixties , spy

JACQUELINE ELLIS VACATIONS FOR A NOIRISH 'DANGER MAN'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl5KGjyK5sjgW3deqQ9N9VM0kyKr1YoTyRhW2C7mtpGtMx7-hBo07d9jRGxDgnxu2NsaXC31N32QQfVCLNMVHaHhkqiNuAEyRSSajAkFQozO3dkYnbAi45WuYxtNaOEu8oGlM4SQ59hkFb3CTYEcWgMJ4lA5VWg-P7SFLq3TFf2CtOiCukNY27KhlFag/s1830/312084886_5796803600363872_3085006816356760227_n%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="1830" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl5KGjyK5sjgW3deqQ9N9VM0kyKr1YoTyRhW2C7mtpGtMx7-hBo07d9jRGxDgnxu2NsaXC31N32QQfVCLNMVHaHhkqiNuAEyRSSajAkFQozO3dkYnbAi45WuYxtNaOEu8oGlM4SQ59hkFb3CTYEcWgMJ4lA5VWg-P7SFLq3TFf2CtOiCukNY27KhlFag/s16000/312084886_5796803600363872_3085006816356760227_n%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrick McGoohan and Jacqueline Ellis in Danger Man: Vacation Year: 1961 Grade: A+</td></tr></tbody></table>When it comes to 1960's British spy television,  Patrick McGoohan is (and was even then) a legend with DANGER MAN, playing agent John Drake, morphed into SECRET AGENT and then THE PRISONER (more a spiritual than literal continuation): and in the first series, actress Jacqueline Ellis... usually cast as the good girl-next-door type for the overall crime genre... is the... um... well...That's a spoiler because her character... the niece of a very rich fella sought by a professional hit man (Hugh McDermott, who'd play Ellis's husband on <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/ellisaint2.html">THE SAINT</a>) that Drake's impersonating after recognizing and then knocking him out in an airplane... initially seems like the target, and whether she's practicing tennis or urgently warned by the always-intense McGoohan, she's cuter than ever in an excellently tight-knit, no-nonsense episode.

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JACQUELINE ELLIS VACATIONS FOR A NOIRISH 'DANGER MAN'

Patrick McGoohan and Jacqueline Ellis in Danger Man: Vacation Year: 1961 Grade: A+ When it comes to 1960's British spy television, Patr...

Written by James M. Tate / 10/15/2022 / No comments / british neo noir , british tv , con man , crime , hugh mcdermott , jacqueline ellis , roger moore , sixties , the saint

JACQELINE ELLIS RETURNS ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBJkRMVxcld5V526QaqvPPeP5Vm04eJH9JSd2btJVkxNMDmTKS9dLQ_a_SKs6mKOb75xDSfIe7nq8xk-Ivzomy30bFOF7L1G3_xn69e-h-V8hvXoMlG5KswV9PTRIC7YCjIs6UK36gwoLHzzKVviB48gV6Dbk4czkihpHd8bwZVsQHBIhkt1aqw4uXA/s1688/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="1688" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBJkRMVxcld5V526QaqvPPeP5Vm04eJH9JSd2btJVkxNMDmTKS9dLQ_a_SKs6mKOb75xDSfIe7nq8xk-Ivzomy30bFOF7L1G3_xn69e-h-V8hvXoMlG5KswV9PTRIC7YCjIs6UK36gwoLHzzKVviB48gV6Dbk4czkihpHd8bwZVsQHBIhkt1aqw4uXA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Jacqueline Ellis & Hugh McDermott in The Saint: The Golden Frog Year: 1965 Grade: C—</td></tr></tbody></table>Second episode of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/ellisaint.html">THE SAINT</a> where<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis"> Jacqueline Ellis</a>... the cute British actress who starred in British Film Noirs ranging from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/ellis.html">ACCIDENTAL DEATH</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/blog-post.html">THE TRAITORS</a> and THE <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">HI-JACKERS</a>... is teamed with an older man, holed-up in a posh hotel, attempting to con a rich man...  In this case it's Roger Moore's Simon Templar, pretending to be a buyer in search of the titular GOLDEN FROG... and this time the location's South America instead of San Fransisco from an eclectic series that always changed locales...

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JACQELINE ELLIS RETURNS ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

Jacqueline Ellis & Hugh McDermott in The Saint: The Golden Frog Year: 1965 Grade: C— Second episode of THE SAINT where Jacqueline El...

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