Mix Me a Person ** (1962, Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Adam Faith) – Classic Movie Review 9613

Young Adam Faith (aged 22) stars as Harry Jukes, who is unjustly convicted of a cop killing, but finds a champion in his lawyer Philip Bellamy QC (Donald Sinden)’s wife, psychiatrist Dr Anne Dyson (Anne Baxter), in a moderate film of Jack Trevor Story’s novel.

Director Leslie Norman’s earnest 1962 British mystery-drama suspense thriller Mix Me a Person has its moments, is diligently made and has dated amusingly too. But Faith and Baxter are not exactly an obvious or ideal pair, showing little rapport, and Sinden hardly fits in either.

The then pop sensation Faith does not show a lot of acting promise here, though he is pleasantly naturalistic, and went on to be a very solid actor in the 70s and 80s on TV and stage, finding TV fame in the title role of Budgie (1971). He sings a couple of songs: the title song and a version of ‘La Bamba’ (both music and lyrics by Johnny Worth.

Also in the cast are David Kernan, Walter Brown, Jack MacGowran, Topsy Jane, Frank Jarvis, Peter Kriss, Carole Ann Ford, Anthony Booth, Walter Brown, Glyn Huston, Dilys Hamlett, Meredith Edwards, Alfred Burke, Russell Napier, Ed Devereaux, Ray Barrett, Donald Morley, Gilbert Wynne, Nigel Davenport and Norman Johns.

Mix Me a Person is directed by Leslie Norman, runs 116 minutes, is made by Wessex Film Productions, is released by British Lion Film Corporation (1962) (UK), is written by Ian Dalrymple and Roy Kerridge, based on Jack Trevor Story’s novel, is shot in black and white by Ted Moore, is produced by Victor Saville and Sergei Nolbandov, is scored by John Barry, Johnny Worth (song music and lyrics) and Muir Mathieson (musical adviser), with Art Direction by John Blezard.

It is shot at Shepperton Studios, Middlesex, England, and on location in London.

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