Gordon K. McCallum Filmography

The Seven-Percent Solution

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson, Laurence Olivier

Synopsis: Nicholas Meyer based his screenplay for the "retro" Sherlock Holmes adventure The Seven Percent Solution on his own best-selling novel. As any Baker Street Irregular will tell you, the title refers to the dosage of cocaine taken by Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson). The Great Detective's friend Read More

The Old Curiosity Shop

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Anthony Newley, David Hemmings, David Warner, Michael Hordern, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: The musical Mr. Quilp was based on one of Dickens' grimmest works, The Old Curiosity Shop, which has as its highlight the death of its heroine. The principal character is a villain, a hunchbacked usurer who wishes to take over the business of an antique dealer. Anthony Newley plays the horrid Mr. Read More

Rollerball

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn

Synopsis: In the year 2018 violence has been outlawed and corporations have replaced government as the ruling party following the demise of politics. With the absence of war or conflict, a forcibly passive population's bloodlust is satisfied by a brutal new sport known as Rollerball. A high-octane melding Read More

92º in the Shade

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder, Burgess Meredith, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: Though set in Key West, Florida, a goodly portion of 92 in the Shade was filmed in England. Peter Fonda plays Tom Skelton, a bum who gets a job as a fishing guide in his old home town. Nobody wants to have anything to do with Skelton, least of all rival guides Nichol Dance and Carter (Warren Oates Read More

The Odessa File

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: The Odessa File is set in Hamburg in the winter of 1963. Jon Voight plays Peter Miller, a German reporter who is investigating the whereabouts of missing Nazi war criminals. After reading the diary of a Holocaust survivor who has recently committed suicide, Miller goes on the trail of in-hiding SS Read More

Open Season

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Synopsis: Though no longer fighting in the war, four deranged Vietnam vets continue to enjoy hunting people down and killing them. This violent exploitation drama tells the story of their latest two victims. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Day of the Jackal

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Terry Alexander

Synopsis: In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles De Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) because of their disagreement with his policies during the Algerian War. They hire a professional killer, known only as "The Jackal" (Edward Fox Read More

A Warm December

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Earl Cameron, Yvette Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Esther Anderson

Synopsis: The second directorial effort from Academy award-winning actor Sidney Poitier, this romantic drama is about widowed American doctor Matt Younger (Poitier) who travels to London with his daughter, Stefanie (Yvette Curtis). There, he meets Catherine (Esther Anderson), the daughter of African Read More

Innocent Bystanders

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Michael Poole, Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence, Dana Andrews, Sue Lloyd

Synopsis: Innocent Bystanders stars Stanley Baker as a Bondlike British secret service agent. In collaboration with fellow spies Geraldine Chaplin and Dana Andrews, Baker is sent behind the Iron Curtain to locate a Russian scientist who has escaped from Siberia. There's a likelihood that the scientist was Read More

Jesus Christ Superstar

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen, Bob Bingham

Synopsis: The second Biblical epic to be turned into a musical by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice, this box-office disappointment recounts the last week in the life of Jesus Christ in rock-opera format and from the surprising point of view of Christ's betrayer, Judas Iscariot. Carl Anderson Read More

The Devil's Widow

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Peter Hinwood, Oliver Norman

Synopsis: In this interesting horror movie, a pleasure-seeking noblewoman uses contemporary black magic to toy with the young lovers who surround her. The story is also known as The Devil's Widow and The Ballad of Tam-Lin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Toomorrow

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Olivia Newton-John, Benny Thomas, Vic Cooper, Karl Chambers, Roy Dotrice

Synopsis: This insipid science fiction musical concerns a group of students paying their way through school by forming a pop band. The group is led by Olivia Newton-John, and organist Vic Cooper has invented an instrument called the "tonaliser." The sonic vibrations from the invention causes an Read More

Battle of Britain

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Curd Jürgens, Ralph Richardson, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier

Synopsis: James Bond-flick director Guy Hamilton helmed this episodic, all-star World War II film. With Sir Laurence Olivier heading up an ensemble cast as flight commander Sir Hugh Dowdling, The Battle of Britain pays tribute to other nationalities instrumental in fending off the waves of Luftwaffe planes Read More

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson, Celia Johnson

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie stars Maggie Smith in the title role. Smith won an Academy Award for her delicately textured portrayal of an eccentric teacher at an exclusive Scottish girl's school. Miss Jean exhorts her "gels" to follow their hearts and never Read More

This Sporting Life

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell, Colin Blakely

Synopsis: Adapted by David Storey from his own novel, This Sporting Life stars Richard Harris as Frank, an athletic coal miner who aspires to the greener pastures of professional rugby. Soon establishing himself as one of the most brutal and arrogant players in the business, Frank begins to amass a fortune. Read More

Peeping Tom

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Karl Heinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Shirley Ann Field, Esmond Knight

Synopsis: Michael Powell's controversial meditation on violence and voyeurism effectively destroyed his career when it was first released, but later generations have come to regard it as a masterpiece. Karl Heinz Boehm stars as Mark, the son of a psychologist who kept a video journal of the boy's upbringing Read More

Carve Her Name with Pride

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey, Alain Saury

Synopsis: Carve Her Name With Pride is based on R. J. Minney's book about real-life British war heroine Violet Szabo. Played by Virginia McKenna, Violet joins the war effort when her French husband is killed. By virtue of her facility at languages, Violet is sent by the British secret service to spy on the Read More

Pursuit of the Graf Spee

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Widely regarded as one of the best and most intelligent British war dramas of the 1950s, The Battle of River Plate is the story of Britain's first significant naval victory in WW2. John Gregson heads the cast as Captain Bell, skipper of the Exeter, one of several vessels engaged in pursuit of the Read More

Doctor in the House

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall

Synopsis: The first of the popular British "Doctor" comedy series, Doctor in the House stars Dirk Bogarde as callow young medical student Simon Sparrow. Beginning his five-year internship at St. Swithin's Teaching Hospital, Sparrow continually runs afoul of head doctor Sir Lancelot Sprat (James Robertson-Justice Read More

Penny Princess

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Yolande Donlan, Dirk Bogarde, Edwin Styles, Reginald Beckwith, Kynaston Reeves

Synopsis: Actress Yolande Donlon and her producer-director husband Val Guest were the prime movers of the 1952 comedy Penny Princess. Donlon plays Lindy Smith, a Manhattan shopgirl who inherits a mythical European kingdom. Upon learning that the country is flat broke, Lindy applies her Yankee ingenuity Read More

Prelude to Fame

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Guy Rolfe, Kathleen Byron, Kathleen Ryan, Henry Oscar

Synopsis: Guy Rolfe is top-billed in the British Prelude to Fame, but the critics' attention was directed at young newcomer Jeremy Spencer. This is the story of a poverty-stricken boy named Guido (Spencer) who turns out to be a musical prodigy. Prodded into fame by a wealthy, childless patroness of the arts Read More

The Red Shoes

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Léonide Massine, Albert Basserman

Synopsis: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's influential musical tragedy set the stage for the climactic dance ballets that became a staple of the Arthur Freed-MGM musicals (An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon) of the early 1950s. Hans Christian Andersen's tragic fairy tale Read More

I Know Where I'm Going!

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, George Carney, Petula Clark, Walter Hudd

Synopsis: While awaiting access to England's Technicolor cameras for their upcoming super-production Stairway to Heaven, the producer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger dashed off a delightful "personal" project, I Know Where I'm Going. Young middle-class Englishwoman Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller Read More