I'm with you on that, Mark. Don't know if we'll have a chance to reprise our MIDCENTURY MADNESS screening concept anytime soon, but a Sylvester triple bill from his UK stint (BLIND CORNER, OFFBEAT, RING OF SPIES) was part of the original master list for the series we did last year but had to be dropped out of the lineup when the number of films got cut from 48 to 32.

Sylvester eventually came back to America, but had no success continuing as a leading man; after his supporting role in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, he was pretty much relegated to television.

In among his British TV credits, however, is a startling discovery: amongst his seven appearances on the ITV PLAY OF THE WEEK from 1957-67, there is a 90-minute version of DOUBLE INDEMNITY from 1960 where Sylvester plays Walter Neff. His major co-stars make for a fascinatingly odd collision: Donald Pleasence as Barton Keyes, and Canadian actress Madeleine Sherwood as Phyllis Dietrichson. I can easily see Sylvester as Walter, but these other two strike me as really odd choices--odd enough, in fact, to spawn a perverse desire to see it. ITV's holdings seem to have been better preserved than many of the UK TV series, so perhaps one of these days...