SALVAGE JOKER T SHIRT

t shirt

jersey: a close-fitting pullover shirt
A T-shirt (T shirt or tee) is a shirt which is pulled on over the head to cover most of a person’s torso. A T-shirt is usually buttonless and collarless, with a round neck and short sleeves.
T Shirt is a 1976 album by Loudon Wainwright III. Unlike his earlier records, this (and the subsequent ‘Final Exam’) saw Wainwright adopt a full blown rock band (Slowtrain) – though there are acoustic songs on T-Shirt, including a talking blues.

salvage

Rescue (a wrecked or disabled ship or its cargo) from loss at sea
save from ruin, destruction, or harm
Retrieve or preserve (something) from potential loss or adverse circumstances
collect discarded or refused material; “She scavenged the garbage cans for food”
property or goods saved from damage or destruction

joker

A foolish or inept person
a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; “some joker is blocking the driveway”
A person who is fond of joking
A playing card, typically bearing the figure of a jester, used in some games as a wild card
a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent; “when I demanded my money he showed me the joker in the contract”

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0012 Darren McGavin

Darren McGavin in ‘Ride the High Wind’ aka ‘African Gold’. It was a flop, despite best efforts

The well-known South African film-maker David Millin (ASC) was my boss on no less than four motion pictures, so I suppose one can conclude that he must have liked my work.

He had started his long career at the Killarney Film Studios as a props man and in the cutting room (much the same as the great David Lean had done) and also assisting another pioneer, cameraman George Noble.

Dave’s eventual contribution to the South African film industry was legendary and his penchant for making action adventure films became his life-long passion. This film-making genre came to him with a vengeance after he had left Killarney and had started his own production company, specifically after he had worked as the 2nd Unit director/cameraman on, among others, a very good film, Where No Vultures Fly, which was shot in East Africa.

It was Dave, in fact, who gave me my first photographic jobs after I’d moved back to South Africa from Kenya, which was where the ‘bug’ of working on films, had first bitten me.

I may have worked for him as his publicity stills photographer on four films, but the last film I worked on with him was, unfortunately, not the box-office smash hit we anticipated.
It was Ride the High Wind and regrettably, it was, metaphorically speaking, exactly that. The story-line was exciting enough with a pilot force-landing in the desert and hidden gold bullion from the Boer war. The location was the breathtakingly beautiful and magical Namib desert in Namibia, the (then) South West Africa. The combination promised a sure fire recipe for success. In spite of its visual, photographic excellence by cameraman Johnny Brown, it was, sadly, a flop. Even after it had been re-named African Gold, a marketing attempt to salvage it’s box-office appeal, there was nothing to be done about both appeal and reputation.

The lead part in the film was played by the well-known American TV actor Darren Mc Gavin, who had had a big success with many TV series and films such as The Man With The Golden Arm and The Joker is Wild, opposite Frank Sinatra.

Also featured was the well known German actor Albert Lieven, who had played Rommel in The Desert Fox and with whom I had worked on Sanders Of the River, a year before. The female (romantic) leads were Maria Perschy from Austria and Alison Seebohm from the UK.

I liked Darren from the moment we first met. He was a wonderfully outgoing, warm, intellegent man, who called a spade a spade and who loved the desert. He was well known for speaking his mind when disenchanted (especially to film directors).

I remember him standing, in the boiling hot Namibian sun, on top of a mountainous sand dune, criticising a particularly inane bit of dialogue in the script. “I can’t play this shit Dave. It’s crap,” he said vehemently and immediately sat down on the sand, with an old stubby pencil in hand. In five minutes flat he had re-written the whole scene. Not the first or last time I was to experience an actor’s intuitive feeling for ‘what works’. It was a vast improvement.

We were, as crew, accommodated in Walvis Bay and every morning drove the 25 kms along the coast road to Swakopmund and then east into the Gonakondis Mountains, where nothing lived. The terrain resembled a Lunar landscape.

One evening, after shooting in the “Kahn-Mine” (a very spooky disused old copper mine deep inside the mountain,) Darren, my great buddy Johnny Brown, (our director of photography,) and I, stopped off in Swakopmund at the Hansa Hotel for a quick, thirst-quenching beer. We got ‘involved’ with the very friendly locals who wouldn’t let us leave. Eventually, fortified with local beer, but dressed only in t-shirts and jeans, we set off back along the coast road for Walvis Bay in the ‘prop’ Landrover, which was itself ‘dressed’ for the film in that it had no top and no windscreen.
Although, during my time in the navy I’d experienced real cold in the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic circle, I have never, never been as cold as I was that night in the Namib desert, (in mid-November) on that coastal road. We nearly froze.

Darren, who died in 2001 at the age of 83, was great to work with, but he could be difficult at times. This may be why he wrote on this character shot of him, “Thanks Bob, for all the patience, and good work! Darren McGavin.”

Salvage

Salvage is a picturesque fishing town in Newfoundland.