[…]o with Mickey Balcon?Peter Birch : He was the big-shot you know, we kowtowed to him and gave him all the respect he was entitled to. No, we had more dealing with Chan [Chandos] Balcon on the set. Then they had another Balcon who ran a camera. Another Balcon brother. He was a cameraman but I never wo[…]
[…]s we did was the see the windmill on which they test out models of air aircraft and I remember being quite fascinated by Dallas Bower's way of dealing with thisStephen Peet 27:29 Windmill, or a wind tunnel?Alan Izod 27:31 No, it's it's, it's it's neither. It's a r[…]
[…]sp;- but he was very nice and spoke very friendly to me and I had this silly meeting - I have an idea it was that actor whom I loath who did a lot of Ealing films - Tommy Trinder - whom I absolutely - you know he was very brash and he had been insulting and I had a set-to with Tommy Trinder and have[…]
[…] worked from Alexandra Palace, then Lime Grove, and then from Ealing. Peter Birch : Ealing was the place I used […]
[…]t, and where they got to because one of the lesser juvenile parts and it was Laurence Harvey, who Dickie was so taken by him that he got him apart at Ealing. I think it was in the blue lamp which set him off on his career. And it was another black friend at Lawrence Naismith, who became quite well k[…]
[…] for Dal, because, again, a very good public relations act on his part, because my story had very little to do with the Navy, as such. I mean, I was dealing with a U-boat, the survivors in a lifeboat and one Merchantman that comes to pick them up. Where the hell does the Navy come into it? Hardly at[…]
