I thought he was quite good as the rather wonky yachtsman, preoccupied with details of navigation and cartography (he's a lot like the author John Street in this regard), but still smitten with the winsome Clara. Though third-billed, MacCorkindale actually seemed to me the main character. (In Riddle of the Sands Agutter is interested in MacCorkindale, not York, however.) She has long line of credits over on imdb, many of the ones from the last thirty years in British television, including the popular new series Call the Midwife. Slightly older people (particularly males) likely remember her for Logan's Run (1976), in which she co-starred with Michael York. (She was the sexy and sympathetic English nurse.) (She plays Dollman's daughter, Clara.) I knew I had seen Agutter in something before, and it turned out to be the hit horror film An American Werewolf in London, yet another early eighties film I saw at the theater.
In Sands, MacCorkindale is actually third-billed after not only York, but lovely Jenny Agutter, who provides the mild love interest in the film. Sadly, he died just a couple years ago from cancer, at the untimely age of fifty-eight. He seemed like he might be going places on screen, but by the 1980s he was doing films (and not even in the lead) like The Sword and the Sorcerer (an early-and rather dire-modern fantasy film, which I recall seeing at the movie theater with high hopes back in 1981) and Jaws 3-D (urk! I also saw this at the theater-some taste I had, huh), not to mention the very short-lived television series-a one-time joke punchline - Manimal.Īpparently in the last decade MacCorkindale was best-known for appearing in a British television medical series, Casualty. I immediately recalled him from another Agatha Christie film, Death on the Nile (1978), in the major role of the husband of the first murder victim. Michael York was in an impressive run of successful films back in the 1970s, including (vintage mystery fans will recall) Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and he has kept quite busy acting for decades now, including in the farcical hit series of Austin Powers spy films, but Simon MacCorkindale a long time ago went off the map-in my case, anyway. The two leads in Sands are Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale.
On the other hand, the seasonal classic film A Christmas Story (1983) was directed by the guy who also gave us the pioneering slasher film Black Christmas (1974), so who is to say about these things, really? The 1979 film adaptation was directed by Tony Maylam, whose only other film I recognized was the early slasher "classic," The Burning (1981)-not exactly, one might be forgiven for thinking, a hopeful portent for The Riddle of the Sands.
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