[…]bout a school, but to get to our grammar school, “cor, ‘ere George Wilson’s boy Den, he’s got himself a scholarship, Christ.” So you go there in your best suit. The master was a chap called Maurice M.A (Oxon) and he spoke rather well, whereas we was talking more [faux cockney] “a bit like that darli[…]
[…] and he showed me three stories, three short stories and said what do you think of them. I said well I think this one, Stranger in Town is one of the best stories I’ve ever read. But I did suggest to him and also to Sidney Carroll, who was the author, who was very famous in America, has done some wo[…]
[…]ot more liberal, although the older ones were a bit sniffy, I mean they tended tosort of suck up to the adults by being monitors and prefects but the best society was the servantshall where they were about five or six Scots women and girls and they were quite uninhibited and Ihad the most agreeable […]
[…] him profusely. Also I only finally met David Lean at BAFTA about 6 months before he died. But that day […]
[…] to the adults by being monitors and prefects but the best society was the servants hall where they were about […]
[…]was a one-off.Rodney Giesler: I don't know. I never met him (Neame) although I wrote and thanked him profusely. Also I only finally met David Lean at BAFTA about 6 months before he died. But that day at Pinewood was the next step towards movie-making.John Legard: Your day out at Pinewood was a very […]
[…] time winner, but it teaches one not to scripts or exotic things likeSarah Erulkar 36:09 I tend to do, but that was the film that won the BAFTA at the same time as I got that would have been the way BAFTAPeter de Normanville 36:13 Yeah. Let there be light still on that one. T[…]
[…]cate, so I have just dropped it.LH: What kind of schooling did you have?WR: Prep school in High Wycombe and then the grammar school, and I wasn’t the best student, and my parents were friendly with Edgar Wallace’s Art Director, the only lady art director at the time. She was very talented, when she […]
[…] ah now we come to the piece de, piece de BAFTA, ‘Testament of Youth’. Exactly. [Laughter] How did ‘Testament of […]
