actor Peter Lawford, in 1984 over a never made, Italian financed film called Bloody Mary, in which an actress is abducted and forced to have an abortion after having an affair with a powerful, married man. Upon reading the script Lawford is said to have remarked "are you crazy, do you want to get us all fucking killed", and walked off. Ford's conclusion was that Lawford had interpreted the script as having parallels with Monroe and Kennedy (something Ford denies in the book), and that Lawford's heated reaction validates his claims over Monroe's death. Recent evidence uncovered by filmmaker Philippe Mora would appear to offer credibility to Ford's claim. A third book Bella, about Darvi and Darryl Zanuck was never completed, Ford died after a heart attack in a branch of WH Smith. Ford's 1975 film The Sexplorer aka The Girl From Starship Venus garnered a famous fan in director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino, who owns a private print of the film, commented; "Even as a kid I knew I would get things from The Girl From Starship Venus that I wouldn't get from the Hollywood films". It is regularly screened at "The Best of QT Fest" presented by the Austin Film Society and uStudio, where Quentin brings the best of his personal collection of movies. Tarantino also showed the film at the "LA Grindhouse Film Festival" at the New Beverly Cinema in March/April 2007. Filmography This, That and the Other (1969) Groupie Girl (1970) The Wife Swappers (1970) Secret Rites (1971) Suburban Wives (1971) Commuter Husbands (1972) Keep It Up, Jack (1973) Sex Express (1975) The Sexplorer (1975) What's Up Nurse! (1977) What's Up Superdoc! (1978) Erotic Fantasies (aka Proibito erotico) (1978) La Casa delle Orchidee (aka For Members Only) (1983) The Urge to Kill (1989) See also Stanley Long Pete Walker (director) Norman J. Warren References Further reading X-Rated – Adventures of an Exploitation Filmmaker by Simon Sheridan (Reynolds & Hearn Books) (2008) Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (fourth edition) (Titan Publishing, London) (2011) External links BFI: Derek Ford 1932 births 1995 deaths British casting directors English film directors People from Tilbury 20th-century English screenwriters