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Cut editing i think.
If you look carefully as they lift it there is a tiny tiny jump of the film.
Nope. Alvin Alcorn died in 2003 in New Orleans, at the respectable age of 90. LALD was his only acting credit, but he was a famous jazz musician in New Orleans (a trumpeteer, according to IMDB).
https://imdb.com/name/nm5678369/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t22
Ahh thanks.
So the killer was a local hire for the New Orleans filming.
Now that's very interesting! Another jazz musician hired as a henchman right after Putter Smith as Mr Kidd in DAF, just one film before.
The director of both films, Guy Hamilton, was on record as being a big jazz fan and this is no doubt where he found both musicians. There's also a bit of a tie-in with the casting of talented locals in Jamaica for Dr. No.
Good catch! The Putter Smith and Alvin Alcorn jazz connection with Guy Hamilton.
Thanks! It's just something that came to me when I read it and I wanted to share my thoughts!
Yes, indeed. We can all learn so much from each other!
The author V S Naipaul died last week. His most famous novel was A House For Mr Biswas.
The novel was later adapted as a stage musical, with compositions by Monty Norman. One of the songs written for the play, "Good Sign, Bad Sign", was later rewritten by Norman.... as "The James Bond Theme".
Interestingly, I was reading Roger Moore's James Bond Diary and happen to be reading the pages of Robert Dix just days before his passing. In the diary, Rog says that a famous jazz musician by the name of Kid Thomas Valentine was the one to stab Bob Dix. However, Rog seems to be incorrect as looking at old photos of each, the actor to stab Hamilton is certainly Alvin Alcorn - as verified by IMDB in @Gerard 's link above .
Given that Rog was writing this as it happened, I wonder if this was re-shot at some point.
R.I.P. Robert Dix
RIP.
He did so for Gotfried John in 2014.
He did a terrific episode of The X-Files, too.
RIP, Ricky
Edit: And he was definitely underused in Tomorrow Never Dies. If there is one thing I'd change in that film, it would be expanding his role. With his limited screentime, Gupta remains a mostly anonymous role, but one does get these brief but enjoyable glimpses that hint at a character with an interesting presence. Maybe a scene with Bond exchanging some dialogue with Gupta in the newspaper factory would've done the trick (pun intended).
I mentioned it elsewhere, he was fantastic in that (as was everyone else), and I like that he got to play around with cards and magic a bit in that, too, in a sense.
That was incredible!!! RIP Ricky!