{"id":3128,"date":"2008-05-16T01:22:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T00:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/16\/john-phillip-law-1937%e2%80%932008\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T23:54:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T23:54:41","slug":"john-phillip-law-1937-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/16\/john-phillip-law-1937-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"John Phillip Law, 1937\u20132008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pygar the angel, Barbarella (1968).<\/em><\/p>\n

John Phillip Law, who died on Tuesday<\/a>, was featured here last year in a look at Mario Bava’s crazy live action fumetti<\/em>, Danger Diabolik<\/em><\/a> (below). Law made that film the same year as he played a blind angel in an equally crazy slab of Sixties’ decadence, Barbarella<\/em><\/a>. In a more serious role, he played opposite the very formidable Rod Steiger in The Sergeant<\/em><\/a> which was released the same year; together with Victim<\/em><\/a>, this was one of the first films I remember watching that dealt with same-sex attraction (albeit in the usual angst-ridden mode), with Law’s character being the understandable object of Steiger’s doomed affection.<\/p>\n

After those heights, things tended to be more down than up but I do have an affection for Ray Harryhausen’s The Golden Voyage of Sinbad<\/em><\/a> (1974). Law’s Sinbad was pretty good even if he spends much of the time fighting monsters while Tom Baker was great as the villainous Koura. And I always appreciated that screenwriter Brian Clemens made Lemuria the destination of the voyage, a lost continent mentioned by Madame Blavatsky and many of the Weird Tales<\/em> writers, including HP Lovecraft in The Haunter of the Dark<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Danger Diabolik (1968).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pygar the angel, Barbarella (1968). John Phillip Law, who died on Tuesday, was featured here last year in a look at Mario Bava’s crazy live action fumetti, Danger Diabolik (below). Law made that film the same year as he played a blind angel in an equally crazy slab of Sixties’ decadence, Barbarella. In a more … Continue reading “John Phillip Law, 1937\u20132008”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,7,5,26,38,20],"tags":[7450,1687,2701,167,262,4752,2396],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-film","category-gay","category-lovecraft","category-pulp","category-science-fiction","tag-barbarella","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-madame-blavatsky","tag-obituaries","tag-ray-harryhausen","tag-tom-baker","tag-weird-tales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Os","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}