[…]he Orient Express with Sidney Lumet for whom I have enormous respect, a wonderfully technical director and very good with actors as well, the perfect director. One of the perfect types of directors. We had in the early weeks of that picture The Murder on the Orient Express we had a lot of criticism […]
[…]e in, we made a picture called The Gentle Sex, we shot part of it at Highbury Studio which was a di sasterAL: Why do you say thatGC: It was the wrong director. P. C. Samuel, Phil,SC : What happened to him.GC: He's dead, Phil died after marrying a very wealthy lady, I phoned Phil up and said it's a p[…]
[…]then Harry quite liked my work. My editing work and he thought I might become a director one day. So he said, I'd quite like to do a film with you as director. And we worked on the script, but it didn't come to anything. We couldn't, obviously couldn't launch it. The next move I made was to Pinewood[…]
[…] the drama was a good start Yeah, well yes we if you haven't ended up let's try and get the star into interview interview the star on the show or the producer or whatever and it was, it was all done on the whole thing was very little initially real planning at all. It was an extension of presentatio[…]
[…]frames long. And it was very, very interesting to, for a young person, to have the experience of examining every shot of a film by such a very famous director. Gloria Sachs 12:14 How old were you at this time? Margaret Thomson 12:16 I was 25. Gloria Sachs […]
[…]ny.Alright. Can you give an instance?Oh well many, well many times I, you know, I've said that well, oh I well I mean obviously you, you can tell the director. And I know, you know, we were talking about Tilly, well Tilly is a great one, she used to write beautiful things on the, on thebottom of the[…]
[…]ght side of the industry. I sort of halved my salary, becoming an assistant, you know, but it was well worthwhile.What kind of an assistant?Assistant director. And that day and age, now out of interest, in that day and age of coursewe were fighting for an apprenticeship scheme in the industry becaus[…]
[…]ky. Monsieur Klein.Reggie Beck: There's another 7.Wyn Ryder: So that's touching 20, it must be almost a record, for one editor and one director. I feel you must be in the Guinness book of Records. And he was prolific. Let's talk about the other directors. Alec Bryce. I remember him as[…]
[…] and opened the film unit, became a director, the First Director. He was hoping it would be a nucleus for the […]
[…]have any notions…?NEVILLE WORTMAN: I always had one very big ambition and that was to join the BBC. That was the big thing. To be a director. That’s what I really wanted to do. And by any means just to try to get on the BBC Course as it was which was a very difficult th[…]
