[…]things on the pavement. So I thought, this is a good start. I have to say, having got through that and having done what I think is still probably the best regional programming that there has been, without wishing to appear immodest, the press were extremely supportive, extremely supportive.SF: The l[…]
[…]'re just like the commercials nowadays, but they only lasted about a minute or so. And they were shown on the cinema screen - sort of how to make the best of your food and stretch your rations and...Charles Drazin: Showing delicious recipes with dried eggs and that kind of thing?Manny Yospa: Oh yes,[…]
[…]theme. Robert Hamer directed it. And he said we want a tune that Sounds like a Cross between an English folksong and a Haydn quartet. And so I did my best. The ironic thing was that little film was used as the short for the Royal Film Performance of that year. So the very first professional piece of[…]
[…]eraman, let say it's John Smith, I said Karel I want you to know that I am the rich man's John Smith. And Karel burst out laughing and we've been the best of friends everAlan Lawson: Again another delight for person to work withFreddie Francis: Very nice, a bit of a old fuss-pot but very niceAlan Or[…]
[…] the years when I put down my roots in television. I learnt before there was any  training organised to how to do It and that really is the best way to learn on the job. Everybody was learning at that time. It was only really just getting up steam after the war television. And most a lot o[…]
[…]x picture at the Gate National as they they set up. He set up a very big organisation, which was going to be a nucleus of directors or producers, the best in the country. And um - actually it was one of my shortest jobs, I started on a Monday morning and was fired at lunchtime! On a thing called 'D-[…]
[…]out a thousand pounds a share, and that sort of thing! So, I never made a picture for Robert Clark.Arnold Schwartzman : You received an Academy Award nomination for 'Foreign Correspondent', and was that the same year that 'The Great Dictator' was also nominated?Charles Bennett : Yes, that got it...N[…]
[…] man.1: And he was good to work with? He knew his stuff? You tell me.No, he did know his stuff. Yes, he knows his stuff, as you know, he’s one of the bestdirectors in the world. And after that I did a film called, well I suppose I did so many.Flash Gordon. I mean I can’t... I did a film with Be[…]
