For Shadowplay’s Late Show blogathon: say it softly, but there’s a secret about Pete Cook’s final years that’s hiding in plain sight. In his last decade, Cook not only seemed happier than he’d ever been. He was also at his peak as a comic actor.
From the energy of black America in the turmoil of the Sixties, Fela Kuti, crafted his spiritual Africa. In Wakanda, America can find the endangered spirit of its democratic Republic.
Better late than never, this is part of David Cairns’ Late Film Blogathon, on ‘last films’, an homage to Georges Franju’s late style in ‘Shadowman’.