Savage Islands / Nate & Hayes  
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      1983 - Paramount
      director: Ferdinand Fairfax
      producers: Lloyd Phillips, Rob Whitehouse
      starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe, Jenny Seagrove, etc.
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      Peter's role: stunt arranger / Ben Pease Crewman
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       Peter spent three months in New Zealand and Fiji on this swashbuckling feature.
      The result is an old-fashioned piratical adventure that's great fun and it deserved
      some box office success. Sadly, though, the film was somewhat overlooked by
      its distributors, who changed the title for its American release and pushed it
      back on their schedules until after the release of 'Indiana Jones And The
      Temple Of Doom'.
        
      These two films shared a similar action set-piece involving rope bridges. We all
      know the Indy one, of course, but the one on 'Savage Islands' occurs at the
      start of the movie, with Tommy Lee trapped by the local islanders. After fending
      off the female warriors with his staff, he slices through one end of the bridge,
      rides it down as it slams against the opposite cliff, and climbs up to freedom
      (or not, as it happens). Might this have had some additional influence on the
      rescheduling of the movie? I guess we'll never know...

      Of course, Peter was also stunt arranger on the first Indy film, 'Raiders Of
      The Lost Ark'. It's a small world, innit?

    
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     Look for Peter on Ben Pease's boat, around thirty minutes in to the movie. He plays
     a bandana-wearing crewman, sporting some rather ridiculous facial hair. His character
     sneaks below decks to take advantage of Jenny Seagrove, but she outwits him
     and - as Ben Pease and associates burst in - she threatens to strangle him with her
     chains. Ben then outwits her by dispatching Peter with his knife - dang!

            
                                                                                                    
                                                                              
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    


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