Friday, 26 July 2019

New Kate O'Mara scene found!

If you thought Kate O'Mara's screen nudity record was set in stone with just two entries you would, like me, have been wrong because it's time to make room for another entry on the list.

This is because a contributor has informed me of the discovery of a previously unknown about scene that appears in a 1978 Finnish film called Tuntematon ystävä which translates to An Unknown Friend.  

The plot (from IMDB): "The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen (Kate O'Mara). Together they seek out poor and defenceless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off."

Directed by Lars G. Thelestam it is a detective thriller based on the Detective Inspector Susikoski novels by Mauri Sariola.

Here are a selection of screen caps I was sent.


IMDB Title Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078426/reference


Kate O'Mara's other entries are:-
  • Whose Child Am I? (aka Feelings) (film 1974)
  • Triangle (BBC1 TV Series 1981) [episode 1]

Saturday, 20 July 2019

Lead Log: Jessica Benton (UPDATE)


Thanks to a blog reader who has positively resolved this outstanding lead.

In the original post from March 2018, I pieced together some sketchy intimations that 1970s Onedin Line star Jessica Benton may have had scene(s) involving nudity in the 1974 Dutch film De 5 van de 4 daagse (The Five Are Marching In) directed by René van Nie.

The reader who has come across this film has confirmed that it does indeed include a brief moment of toplessness from Jessica Benton whose role in the film is apparently fairly small, appearing in just a handful of scenes.  She speaks in English while all other characters speak Dutch.

I was sent some illustrative screencaps of Jessica Benton which I've compiled into the following collage.

The bottom left image is the one that is the most revealing.