[…]ld you like to remember?RA: The Third Secret, John Crichton's only feature film after he gave up Ealing Studios, in fact his only film which is not a comedy, it' s a psychological drama, have you seen the film? This is the first feature film I wrote. After The Land I was in the doghouse with Flahert[…]
[…]imes gave him a job at Beaconsfield Studios as assistant editor on two films. One was called The Chinese Bungalow and the other was Sandy Powell in a comedy called All at Sea and my Dad was the assistant editor if you please and got a few pounds a week but he had to have digs up there so there could[…]
[…] about all the after ships with wings, afterSpeaker 3 11:44 ships with wings, which I've now proceeded happily to lose. There was another comedy with little hair, black sheep of white whore, the big blockade, which was one of really an moi type of film, which was direct, that was directe[…]
[…]tch! [laughs]Sidney Cole: He was almost a sort if un-crowned king of Borehamwood in those days.Tilly Day: Oh yes... Wally Patch, he was on 'Comedy Man' with me, which Alvin Rakoff directed...Alan Lawson: Oh yes?Tilly Day: ...at um, Shepherd's Bush, I ... [correcting herself] at S[…]
[…]fferent styles. Are they different? Yes, yes. I mean one in the way, spectacular spectacle, isn't it, in a way, and the other one is very close knit, comedy.Speaker 2 17:17 Not a bad location. No, lovely here in a photograph, becauseUnknown Speaker 17:27 almost whichever way […]
[…]n’t remember in detail.But they obviously impressed you.Y es.Okay. Was there any showbiz connection in your family at all?Yes. My aunt was in musical comedy really it was, I suppose. She used to play leading lady in number one tour, about I suppose, oh, latest would have been the twenties. And my gr[…]
[…]aid, “You have to give us these title ends, we need the ends Peter” and he said, “Right” and he sat down at the old thing and he wrote, they were all comedy lines, I mean the cameraman was professor of something or other. He was a great man to work for. I remember he went to America, I […]
[…]d thought it was a good idea to make the play anyway. But by the end of the War we couldn't go on making films about the war and then came the Ealing comedy Series and in some ways Mick was happier being studio head when those films were being made than when we'd been making the more serious stuff.T[…]
[…]ctor - and do you know what the buggers did to him? They gave him The Arcadians to make a silent picture of, which was an Edwardian musical comedy. And Saville from the very start was no man's fool, believe me. He goes to America, well somehow or other, and he picks up... what was his name[…]
[…] 1956 adaptation of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty - Four, comedy Lucky Jim in 1957 and a year later in […]
