Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious is a 1965 oddball comedy film shot in black and white directed by Gottfried Reinhardt and starring Alec Guinness, Mike Connors and Robert Redford. It is based on
Situation Hopeless But Not Serious
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Robert Archibald Shaw was an English actor and writer. Beginning his career in theatre, Shaw joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre after the Second World War and appeared in productions of Macbeth,
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
…white directed by Gottfried Reinhardt and starring Alec Guinness, Mike Connors and Robert Redford. It is based on the 1960 novel The Hiding Place by Robert Shaw. The title is derived from Austrian-born columnist and theater critic Alfred Polgar's quip, "The situation is desperate, but not serious…
Shaw in a 1958 advertisement for The Buccaneers
Shaw in The Buccaneers (1957)
Robert Shaw memorial in Tourmakeady, County Mayo, Ireland, near the location where he died
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