[…] music on it, and for some reason the kids like it. But what happened to that one, it was about madness. Jack Hawkins was in that too. The top man at Fox changed just after we finished shooting it, Zanuck got in and Zanuck decided he wanted to make pictures for the family, and this was a strange mad[…]
[…]t with MGM and it has another two or three years to run. I think it had three years to run actually.So we had meanwhile been lent out to 20th Century Fox to do a film called Night in the City with George Duffin and I began to think well what is the point of working for MGM when we never work for MGM[…]
[…]n, or whatever it was called, broke the monopoly between Kodak and technical I didn't they,Unknown Speaker 1:50:31 well now, 20th Century Fox, yeah, 20Unknown Speaker 1:50:35 court, yeah. AndUnknown Speaker 1:50:39 although we know we had, you see, we had a three […]
[…]! [AL laughs] But of course, the main thing which was the death knell of that magnetic track at that time, and we were going four-track, that was the Fox Cinemascope format - was the cost of striping and recording on the track. That was another operation that had to be done and it had to be paid for[…]
[…]o hard in trying to get his clients more money and probably scared a lot of people off.Roy Fowler: I think that's probably true. He was a director at Fox British before he became an agent, he came over here to work as a director and the stories of him there are that he was a very offensive unpleasan[…]
[…]ich had ended. I heard all that...Roy Fowler : The Motion Picture Trust - you know about that do you?Ella Mallett : Ooh yes, I of course! Laemmle and Fox...Roy Fowler : Right. Did you follow that at the time or is that something you've read about since?Ella Mallett : Please?Roy Fowler : I say, did y[…]
[…]why not?Tom Peacock: So I would go. Now when I start reminiscing I get mixed up with Shepperton, Pinewood, Denham, Riverside Studio, Gaumont-British, Fox in Wembley, all the studios that I worked in you see. When they were busy I would nip in - MGM, and all that you see. But there was 'Cleopatra'...[…]
[…] business for aSpeaker 1 46:41 long time. By that time, Roy, you see, I had, I, I left at the end of 46 or beginning of 47 to join Sidney Fox. So I didn't, but yes, the other two names was Peter Brook, and we're going toRoy Fowler 47:03 have to stop getting out at.Roy Fowler […]
