[…] could I do, and to be able to offer my professional experience to a film, which is going to put exactly my point of view, I thought, well, this is a golden opportunity. But technicality at last sort of got in the way. They were going to prepared it for sure. And for editing on Avid, and they've got[…]
[…] wonderful time for years writing brother people. I now write and get ideas for myself. Colin, sell my mate. The pianists we do shows together Ronnie golden, a good old friend. We do a song based show. We write the songs. That's what I do. Now. I haven't written for a show for quite some years. The […]
[…]n, it is now Screen International, because it was breaking records. So therefore the industry loves people that make money. So, I suddenly became the golden boy on those films. And I went on to do Loving Feelingwhich was also another sexploitation film, as they called them, which did well. But […]
[…]ate!PM: Ah, lovely he was lovely, yes. And I did The Return of the Native with him as well, with Catherine Zeta-Jones. No less.DB: Which to pick out? Goldengirl. What’s that? Joseph Sargent.PM: Joseph Sargent directed a picture called The Taking of Pelham 123 – the original, not the remake, right. A[…]
[…]ame a clapper loader. My first cameraman was a wonderful man called Jimmy Wilson. I can't say too much about the operator because he was not very pleasant but a guy called John Winbolt, ex- Technicolor technician. Johnny Shinerock and Wally Fairbrother were the foc[…]
[…]ose we would call it a BAFTA award today, but it was before BAFTAs.JH: Yes, it was for The Wrong Box. In those days, the award for costume, all their awards were very much for British films. Things made here, so you didn’t have the whole wide open market to contend with. So I got it for The Wrong Bo[…]
[…]act we were right all the way along because, it’s just emerged in fact that it was taken by the Russians and has been hidden in the Pushkin museum in Moscow since then. It just emerged again. So, we did a sort of detective story on that and we filmed in Greece, and it was rather a succes[…]
[…]it was from original script by Jean Anhouli The entire crew were French, though, because I was bilingual. I could direct the crew , but obviously for international reasons. They wanted it in English. It was end of the era when I think you know, the German officer on the bridge was able to scream Ach[…]
[…] immediately bring the conversation to The Elephant Will Never Forget. He'd say, "I just thought you'd like to know that a copy of it's being held in Moscow as a prime example of British documentary - I thought you'd like to know that," you know, and all this was going on. And um - he um - I never w[…]