[…]on in studios, and watching studio lighting and all that sort of thing. And at that time, I found that I couldn't get directly in. I went out also to Fox Studios at Wembley, when, again, he was directing out there, again, making things like the Arsenal murder mystery. I was one of them. I don't reme[…]
[…]ties on a number of pictures. To begin with I did a film Cavalcanti directed called 'Tient the Day Well" which still pops up from time to time on the Fox. This is a story originally written by Graham Green about what seems to a platoon of British soldiers going into a quiet English village. These tu[…]
[…]st ones. He then transferred, to myknowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man for Pathé Gazette and then, whensound started, he joined Fox Movie Tele-news. Now, or then, British Movietone is. He went tothe States to learn the technique of sound coverage and came back, continued to be […]
[…] 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[…]
[…] um - I also have credit on a film for Fox and I cannot remember the title at the moment. […]
[…] Thorold across the road, we were meeting in The Intrepid Fox, I think - and he went across the road […]
[…]went incredibly well. We shot in San Francisco for exteriors that were supposed to take place there. And then interiors in the studio at 20th Century Fox. I'll never forget driving in my car there. My name it was written in the parking lot. I've arrived ! I've arrived! - in West Hollywood[…]
