Rico says he and the ladyfriend watched yet another
William Holden movie,
The 7th Dawn, also starring a young
Susanna York and
Capucine, as a revolutionary local:
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the end of the Second World War.
It was, charitably, a bit weak, but watchable. But doing a little research on the film turned up the unusual factoids that
Holden suffered a laceration to his forehead and bled to death, after he slipping on a throw rug and hitting his head on a table (though claims that he was intoxicated at the time are disputed), while
Capucine (a lifelong manic-depressive, apparently) committed suicide, at the age of 62, in
Lausanne, Switzerland, after jumping from her eighth-story apartment. (Her stage name, as she was born
Germain Lefebvre, is the name of the
nasturtium flower in French.)
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