QB VII
QB VII by Leon Uris is a dramatic courtroom novel published in 1970. The four-part novel highlights the events leading to a libel trial in the United Kingdom. The novel was Uris's second consecutive #1 New York Times Best Seller and third overall. The novel is loosely based on a court case for defamation (Dering v Uris) that arose from Uris' previous best-selling novel Exodus.
Television miniseries
| QB VII | |
|---|---|
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| Created by | Leon Uris |
| Starring |
Ben Gazzara Anthony Hopkins |
| Composer(s) | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Country of origin |
 United States |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Douglas S. Cramer |
| Running time | 390 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
The Douglas S. Cramer Company Screen Gems |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | April 29, 1974 – 2001 |
QB VII was made into an American television six-and-a-half-hour miniseries produced by Screen Gems; it was also the final program from Columbia Pictures's television division to be made under the Screen Gems banner.[1] It began airing on ABC on April 29, 1974. Adapted to the screen by Edward Anhalt, it was produced by Douglas S. Cramer and directed by Tom Gries. The original music was written by Jerry Goldsmith and the cinematography by Paul Beeson and Robert L. Morrison.
The six-and-a-half-hour miniseries won six primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for several more.
Plot
Adam Kelno has made it to England in the days following World War II. Having escaped from a death camp in Nazi Europe, he finds that his identification with anti-communists in Poland has made him a target of the Soviet Government, which brings up war crime charges against him in England. When the witness is unable to identify him as one of the doctors who castrated him, he is released. Kelno takes his wife and young son to Sarawak where he labors for years upgrading public health standards. Upon his return to England he is Knighted. Twenty years have passed and he has just begun to enjoy his life of renown when a book is published that names him as a willing participant to Nazi medical experiments on Jews in the camps. He sues for defamation and finds that not only can he not escape his past, but that the plaintiff in a defamation case has his own reputation on trial. QB VII refers to the courtroom in which the trial is held, Queen's Bench, Room 7.
Cast
- Ben Gazzara as Abraham Cady
- Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Adam Kelno
- Leslie Caron as Angela Kelno
- Lee Remick as Lady Margaret Alexander Wydman
- Juliet Mills as Samantha Cady
- Dan O'Herlihy as David Shawcross
- Robert Stephens as Robert Highsmith
- Anthony Quayle as Tom Banniester
- Milo O'Shea as Dr. Stanislaus Lotaki
- John Gielgud as Clinton-Meek
- Edith Evans as Dr. Parmentier
- Jack Hawkins as Justice Gilray
- Judy Carne as Natalie
- Kristoffer Tabori as Ben Cady
- Joseph Wiseman as Morris Cady
- Anthony Andrews as Stephen Kelno
- Signe Hasso as Lena Kronska
- Sam Jaffe as Dr. Mark Tessler
- Alan Napier as Semple
- Julian Glover as Zaminski
- Vladek Sheybal as Egon Sobotnik
- Grégoire Aslan as Sheik Hassan
- Lana Wood as Sue Scanlon
- Michael Gough as Dr. Fletcher
- Leigh Lawson as Dicks
- Geoffrey Keen as Magistrate Griffin
- Robert Hutton as Ambassador Richards
This was Jack Hawkins' final movie role. He had already had a laryngectomy for throat cancer, and used esophageal speech in his speaking parts. He died soon after filming was completed.
DVD releases
QB VII was released as a Region 1 DVD on May 29, 2001.
See also
References
External links
- QB VII at the Internet Movie Database