"You must learn to take your punishment like a stick." Richard Roundtree died on October 24, best known for the game-changing Shaft and its two sequels. He's very funny and infectious here in Adrian Mitchell's critique of Colonialism, pretending to bow down to Peter O'Toole's 'superior' civilisation and finding most of his ideas ridiculous. O'Toole's wonderful. It's a little patchy, especially the ending, but the rapport between the two is great.
Anne Coates' cutting of reaction shots to Friday's story is rather fabulous, as is her dealings with a parrot. The highlight is probably the hang glider scene (and the build-up: "What if we were not the eagle, but the pig?"), photographed by Alex Phillips off Mexico.
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