Douglas Slocombe RIIP (Part 2): Touch and Go

So continuing on from my previous post, some Slocombe Films that stand out:

1. Touch and Go (1955)
2. The Blue Max (1966)
3. Nasty Habits (1977)
4. Julia (1977)
5. Never Say Never Again (1983)
6. The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
7. The Italian Job (1969)
8. Taste of Fear (1961)
9. The Young Ones (1961)
10. The L-Shaped Room (1962)
11. The Third Secret (1964)

I chose the first 9 films due to their Release year and what it communicates, and then the last two because of the titles and the cryptic communication within.

 I will investigate the first.  First of all, there's the title and what it means as a phrase:

•  a precarious situation in which the outcome is doubtful or extremely uncertain for a time – a close flirtation with danger or disaster.

Note from the films wiki page:

• Touch and Go (U.S. The Light Touch) is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Michael Truman and starring Jack Hawkins, Margaret Johnston, and June Thorburn. 

The name "Michael Truman" communicates much... in the cryptic sense and when you know a bit more of the story.  For one we have another addition to the "Michael/Versions of Michael" pattern-cluster... and the basis behind creating the cluster has to do with singer Michael Jackson and a "lie" surrounding his death that you can read about in the very first post, June 19, 2012, made in this blog that happens to also involve the MacGregor's and an incident that led to this blog.  To read the post, go to "Censoring Around Michael Jackson's Death (RIIP)".   



Note from the wiki pages of those mentioned:

• Michael Truman (25 February 1916 – 11 July 1972)
• Margaret Johnston (10 August 1914 Australia – 19 June 2002)
• John Edward "Jack" Hawkins (14 September 1910 – 18 July 1973)  
• June Thorburn (8 June 1931 – 4 November 1967)

Today is February 23rd so with Truman's birthday we have a "February 23, __, 25/Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.  Audd... the birthday of June 8th, because just now, since I know the birthdays of Rob and Megan MacGregor (Father/daughter) so well, butt not Trish (mother), I investigated their blog and found out that it's June 7th.  And then lo and behold, June 8th appears, hence generating a "June 7, 8, __/Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.   As well, the date of death for Johnston and Hawkins generates a "June 19, July 18, ____/Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.

What makes it audd, is how June Thorburn died:

• popular English actress whose career was cut short by her death in an air crash

Note from the crash's wiki page:

• Among the dead was British film and TV actress June Thorburn, who was five months pregnant. Other notables who died were industrialist and Coventry City Football Club vice-president John Clarkson, and Donald "Doc" Campbell of the Campbell Aircraft Company,^[4] builder of autogyros

So I decided to bridge one of the pattern-cluster gaps above, following the usual investigative format, note from the June 9th wiki page:

• 2000 – John Abramovic, American basketball player (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (b. 1956)

Usually I only investigate the years having 3 identical numbers at the end, butt I made an exception in this case since I happened to note the name Mike Mitchell... and the 11 in the year is significant.  The name Mitchell is a diminutive of Michael and his name is Michael hence a "Michael Michael" twin addition to the "Michael/Versions of Michael" pattern-cluster .

John "Brooms" Abramovic Jr. (born February 9, 1919 – June 9, 2000)
 Michael Anthony Mitchell (January 1, 1956 – June 9, 2011)