[…] came to leave school I had applied to many film companies. I mean I reallydidn’t know so I went to the top and went from MGM, Twentieth Century Fox, the big ones, and worked my way down. And, of course, I got rejections from everybody, in a polite way, they basically said there was nothing we […]
[…] a pain to do was Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh. I wrote the script with Hugh Whitemore, whom I suggested to the producer, who was a man called Ivan Foxwell, who'd made um - a film about one of the wartime escapes. I can't remember - he made The Quiller Memorandum just before this with Guinness and[…]
[…]ight. He, did he finance it personally, or, or just organised? He’s the executive producer isn’t he?
Well, he was executive producer, yes; it was, Fox wasn’t it, Fox?
I guess it was Fox money, I don’t know.
Or was it Paramount? I think it’s Paramount, Paramount who did it. Because I remembe[…]
[…] over a jar. [Side 5, 43 mins]The moment the election booths close at 10 o’clock on voting day, they can’t stop us. So I put up the idea to Paul Fox who then I think was Controller 1, wasn’t he?NS: Yes. DMW: So that's it, we had studio E, I'd think, in Lime Grove, built a pub. I d a minima[…]
[…]d when we started the programme 54 Sports View… I: Ah yes, that’s right. My next point [laughs] yes. P: …Paul Fox, he was moonlighting on the sports columns of the People and also writing the commentary for Television Newsreel and he came to me and said he had[…]
[…] the event.BH: This was Castleton Knight. FL: No, it was not Castleton Knight, it was done for Fox. Whatever his name wasfor Fox. Castleton Knight came in later on. We didn't get Castleton Knight unti[…]
[…]y times, and delightful wife. He was a very charming man who, again, see life was too kind to him to have any sort of great ambitions, same with Ivan Fox, where I work believe years later. Sir Noel, delightful person, the English on cooler memorandum. He was a producer. And the delightful people, bu[…]
[…] You're freelancing, then what came along? Andy Worker: Then Ben Henry and I formed a company and we made three pictures there with 20th Century Fox, so again, American money mainly but some National Film Finance Corporation money. Roy Fowler: Yes. Were these for primarily domestic release[…]
[…] your book to a phone conversation you had with Paul Fox round about the y ear 200 0, and he […]
