[…]ean, it’s like DVDs. You may have graded the original film but they’re not going to invite you to grade the DVD. And what’s good about Kes is that at Criterion, when we did Kes for the American market, not only did we manage to restore the original soundtrack, which on release Kes was considered not[…]
[…] [Lesley Faber] and Yvonne Arnaud, this was effortless, this was quite effortless, because they knew what they were doing. And when I did Nina at the Criterion, (which was another play I did before the war, with Lucie Mannheim, who had been warned by the Nazis to get out, because she was Jewish, and[…]
[…]ght, that ran till the end of ‘38, then I went back to Canada to visit my family for a few months, and then I came back and did Grouse in June at the Criterion right to the beginning of the war, I think we were the last play that closed in the West End.Roy Fowler: You were almost from the beginning […]
[…] they were doing. And when I did Nina at the Criterion, (which was another play I did before the war, […]
[…]ause I'd just been to see Norman Conquest the Acykborn trilogy, and Richard was actually not in that he was in another Acykborn which was down at the Criterion with Paul Eddington in it but the two ladies were in it and Penelope Keith and Felicity Kendall and I was very impressed with both of them e[…]
[…]ve been mad, I mean it was the first thing of the theatre I’d ever done, it was a cast of over thirty, it was going straight into the West End at the Criterion, it was a dodgy subject, it was a time when I was, you know, flexing muscles I suppose … and I ended up in court on a private prosecution, b[…]
[…]at happened?RP: And then I got a job with Marcel Hellman and young Doug Fairbanks [Douglas Fairbanks Jnr.] who had two companies, Excelsior Films and Criterion Films, and they worked at Worton Hall. We made AccusedSC: Where was Worton Hall because that's disappeared nowRP: Worton Hall that was […]
