Amis the Actor

“A High Wind in Jamaica”

Amis participated in the filming of the movie A High Wind in Jamaica when he was thirteen years old. His voice broke during filming, and his words were eventually dubbed -- by an actress. As he explains to Charles Michener: "On the screen you see me but hear her." The film was shot in the West Indies.

Overview at the High Wind in Jamaica website: "Richard Hughes' 1929 novel was made into a movie in 1965. Starring Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Martin Amis and Deborah Baxter, it has rarely been aired on television in the past decade and is not available on video. [...] The novel presents the viewpoint of Emily, a 10-year-old British girl leaving the heathen Jamaica she'd grown up on for some proper British schooling with her siblings and another family of children. The movie takes a more omniscient viewpoint. The children are sent by ship, which is overtaken by pirates who find that the adventuresome kids have been locked aboard their ship while they were plundering the other one. Chavez, the capain, takes a shine to Emily and won't let the others put the children off on an island to get rid of them. After one of the boys accidentally dies and Emily is injured, the pirates mutinee. The children are eventually rescued, but on the bench, a frightened Emily implicates Chavez in a deed she committed by accident but doesn't realize she is innocent of, and Chavez and his crew are hung."

This text was taken from

http://www.martinamisweb.com/filmography.shtml

(viewed on November the 5^th, 2008)

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