Sunburn (1979)

Sunburn (1979) is a prime example of a film launched with huge fanfare but crashed and burned on ots release and is now largely forgotten.  I remember the intensive  publicity campaign for the film's UK release.  Every commercial break, it seemed, a trailer for it was run. A vehicle for Farah Fawcett Majors, it was clearly hoping to cash in on her recent popularity in Charlie's Angels, (although she was only in the first series, before being replaced by Cheryl Ladd), and establish her credentials as a movie star.  Unfortunately, she simply wasn't a big enough draw.  Neither was her co-star Charles Grodin who, despite having appeared in a number of successful movies, really wasn't a star capable of carrying a lead role.  Moreover, bearing in mind that the late seventies had seen the box office dominated by the likes of Jaws and Star Wars, a comedy thriller about an insurance investigation was never likely to set the box office on fire.

So there you have it: another 'sure fire hit' that wasn't and consequently fell into obscurity.  Both Fawcett Majors and Grodin enjoyed success in other vehicles - the former mainly on TV - but neither ever became leading actors in the cinema.  Sorry for the brevity of today's post, but I'm still feeling rough as a dog's arse after my hay fever symptoms seemed to come to head overnight.  While the worst of them - the raging temperature, streaming eyes and sinus congestion - have eased off significantly, it has left me feeling utterly exhausted.  Hopefully, I can start to resume normal service (whatever that it) next week.