Kevin McCarthy stars as a history professor with a secret, he's over 2000 years old and knew Plato personally! His fiancé's elderly father figures it out when he sees a Civil War photograph with Walter Jameson in Sherman's army and questions his potential future son-in-law about it. Jameson coughs it up, saying an alchemist was responsible and so Professor Samuel Kittredge(Edgar Stehli)beckons him for answers as to how he could halt the dying process. LONG LIVE WALTER JAMESON is essentially a dialogue movie with aging make-up wizardry at the very end which might remind others of David Bowie's fate in THE HUNGER. McCarthy and Stehli have a specifically long conversation on aging and the detrimental effects which come with having immortality, watching others die as you remain the same. Estelle Winwood's role, while small, is significant in that she is one of those who suffered thanks to Jameson's non-aging, while responsible for his downfall. Dody Heath is the woman who could become Winwood's Laurette if Jameson isn't stopped from marrying her. Anchored by McCarthy's credible performance as a man who doesn't look a day over 42 and yet feels every year he has been alive, admitting he is too afraid to use the revolver in his drawer to end the misery which comes with outliving those you love.
Review of Long Live Walter Jameson
