[…]in Jamaica. Yes.SPEAKER: M14Another film that was taken away from me went NC by Elmer Williams Believe it or not the man who did High Noon and got an Academy Award for it. Yes.SPEAKER: M8Who. Who was running Fox at the time here and had a cutting room constructed next to his office since I was queer[…]
[…]en thirty and be in London by about ten thirty and then I could spend the day at the movies and I used to come up at least once a month and go to the Academy of Studio One or wherever the more interesting films were and furthered my own education that way and also had got to know a few people in Lon[…]
[…]iting of the screenplay always. And I was always in a position where I could have quite rightly claimed, co screenplay credit. And indeed, I have two Academy Award nominations, for screenplay, one being great expectations and the other being brief encounter. But at this particular time for me, just […]
[…]ed the weights at the back of the crane shoot it like a caterpillar would have been the camera was destroyed the cameras Oh, yes, smash was technical Academy. I mean, it was it fell off, you know, the, from the roof of a studio on to the grip, but it's so marvellous, it didn't hit anybody. We don't […]
[…]ed the weights at the back of the crane shoot it like a caterpillar would have been the camera was destroyed the cameras Oh, yes, smash was technical Academy. I mean, it was it fell off, you know, the, from the roof of a studio on to the grip, but it's so marvellous, it didn't hit anybody. We don't […]
[…]ther thing I did there was a picture where the Germans and the French were mining and they were coming together and I experiment quite a bit, and the best thing I could find in those days was these long bars of Primrose soap. And I remember sitting up on the spot rail with a bar of Primrose so[…]
[…]bsp; It was a dramatized portrait of of the Cutty Sark called ‘A Cloud of Sail’ um and, and that got the front cover of the Radio Times and a special award and all sorts of acclamation. It was, it was a complicated piece of production but but I'm, I'm totally dismissive of my work in radio. I worked[…]
[…]0-minute thing about this in a humorous way for Arthur Askey to do. I found out that eight other writers had been asked before me so I put on a great Academy Award act that I was furious, insulted that they'd come to me no 8 on the list, and said I will only do this if you accept it that I direct it[…]
