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The public loved her, especially after her brilliant performance as a disturbed pianist in The Seventh Veil (1945). Starting out in the thirties, this beautiful icy blonde appeared in films like The Return of Bulldog Drummond and Things to Come. For actress Ann Todd, the part of Astrid Linderman in Maelstrom was the last role in a long and distinguished career. Scientists, however, have yet to be convinced. Seafarers’ reports going back thousands of years - right back to Viking times, suggest that the Maelstrom may not all be myth. Ancient Norwegian myths tell of a monster whirlpool off the island of Lofoten, which they call The Maelstrom. Apparently not a fan of all-out blockbuster action, then. Previous scripts had included In Possession (1984) for Hammer, in which a couple are haunted by ghosts from a holiday two years earlier, and The Lotus Eaters (1977), about a husband and wife whose bar-owning retirement in Greece is undermined by past secrets. Not surprisingly, this wasn’t writer Michael J Bird’s first foray into unnerving, slow-burn mystery drama. Maelstrom slowly builds up the tension over a very long six episodes. Behind it, long term Blake’s Seven producer Vere Lorrimer and director David Maloney swapped firefights for fjords.Īn expert in this kind of thing. The small strait, near the town of Bodø, is 3 km long and 150 metres wide connecting Saltfjord and the Skjerstadfjord, and separating the islands of Straumøya and Knaplundsøya. In front of the camera you had Paul Darrow (Avon) and Peter Tuddenham, taking a break from voicing computers both for Blakey’s crew and on Doctor Who. The moving live webcam takes you to the famous strait of Saltstraumen where it occurs the world’s strongest tidal current, in Norway. Stuffed with talent straight from the Liberator, Maelstrom gives a strong impression of the Blake’s Seven cast and crew trying to do something serious for a change.
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Scandinavian company Gryphen put up a chunk of money, and also seem to have had quite a hand in location scouting, judging by the amount of fjords/icy nordic bays/high northern meadows appearing on screen.īlake’s Seven do Ibsen. Maelstrom has the boring distinction of being a rare UK/Norway co-production.