Salt and Pepper (film)
Salt and Pepper is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Richard Donner and starring Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Michael Bates, Ilona Rodgers and John Le Mesurier. It was shot at Shepperton Studios and on location in London and at Elvetham Hall in Hampshire. The film's sets were designed by the art director Don Mingaye. It was followed by a 1970 sequel "One More Time" directed by Jerry Lewis. Plot. Chris Pepper (Lawford) and Charlie Salt (Davis) own a nightclub in Swinging London, operating under the suspicious eye of the intrepid Inspector Crabbe. One  night, Pepper finds an Asian girl on the floor of the club. Assuming she's drunk or high, he makes a date with her and thinks she responds. It turns out the girl is dying, and her death sets off a chain of events that puts the unlucky Salt and Pepper onto a plot to overthrow the British government, with the girl's dying words the key. Novelization. About two months before the release of the film, per the era's customary timing, a paperback novelization of the screenplay was released by Popular Library. The book sold extremely well (used  and preserved copies are plentiful on the internet) and, commensurate with the film's popularity, went through several printings. The author was Alex Austin (not to be confused with the current novelist of the same name), known most for three bestselling original novels: "The Greatest Lover in the World" (1956), "The Blue Guitar" (1960) and "The Bride" (1964). The same year as his "Salt & Pepper" novelization, he would publish "Eleanore" (1968); his final novel would be "Looking for a Girl" (1972). Unless he wrote other novelizations pseudonymously, "Salt & Pepper" was his only media tie-in. Salt and Pepper (film) Salt