[…]was so much more interesting. I couldn't have worked in an office. We had so much fun I wouldn't change any of it.SC: Great.DM: I worked with so many artists. I did Pat McGoohan, The Danger Man, that was Ralph Smart and you.SC: Yes Ralph Smart, I took over from Ralph. But I was sort of associat[…]
[…]a. But the reason we know a lot about that film, was it was shot in Berlin, there was a celebrated um legal action against my father by his principle artist who he brought from America called Betty Blythe who she maintained er had not been paid.Incidentally my father won the case and er also um they[…]
[…]nt position so the wind would blow the smoke in another direction. Anyhow to cut a long story short, after about two days of this I'd had enough. The artists were having to use oil lamps in their dressing rooms and so on. And I went to Eddie Whiting and said, "Look this has got to stop, we've got to[…]
[…]couldn't get a blimp camera, we did do this thing of putting a camera into and when MGM came out to make King Solomon's Mines, they wanted to do some artist tests on one thing another, and they did it in this film studio using this large blimp and the American camera man who was indeed Bob Surtees. […]
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[…]e and he would. He did a marvelous job on it. You got another bloke who would cover boxing extremely well. You get another camera man who would be an artist at the horse racing. You get another bloke who would do the run of the mill stories, but was always up to date with what was happening, and the[…]
[…] has a huge back lot and you can do a lot with it with a good Art Director, which we had. And...no, you notice it a bit. There's a rumour that United Artists, who never wanted to make it anyway, that they had destroyed the negative. But I've got a 16mm copy which I bought from them. They wouldn't gi[…]
[…]. Although I did do the very, very - the filming right at the very, very beginning when we went to Colditz and did a little bit of filming there with artists and also a lot of background stuff. But I think perhaps the last of the 'Colditz' series, probably because of its content, it was a very inter[…]
