[…]think.John Taylor: Were there any other cash-paid, that you paid in cash?Charles Wilder: If you had daily staff like make-up men, second unit camera, hairdressers, they were all paid in cash every day, and it just added to the amount of money that you'd got to provide for you know. I remember on The[…]
[…]cal costumes in case anything was spilled on it and we didn’t want hold ups. It was a scene of a court ball and there was Larry, in uniform, with his hair parted in the middle, than which nothing is less attractive. It didn’t even give him a very good period aspect, you could have done it in several[…]
[…] had charming methods of torture which consisted of if you were naughty he either hit you on the knuckles with an ebony ruler or he lifted you by the hair at the side of, just above your ears, your sideboards, if you had sideboards in those days, he had a charming habit of grabbing you by the those […]
[…]ridge Wells, in Kent.NS: Tunbridge Wells, sorry yes.DMW: We were shepherded in a long crocodile I mean, the 800 boys around from 11 to 18 you know, a hairy bloody lot to cope with. But we were ushered into the local big hall and a woman went through our hair looking for nits [background laughter] an[…]
[…] we missed it.VG: Yes. Get a Load of this. It was a gangster thing set in Chicago and for the first time George Black turned his theatre, tables and chairs thing that it ended up with as Talk of the Town, but in those days he made it a big night club for the whole thing, the play, it was written in […]
[…]ething for about the first 30 seconds. Right hold it hold it he kept saying. They finally after about 30 or 40 seconds he slowly settles down in his chair and by that time I mean I'm thirsty and he starts to pump though a little blood pressure thing on my arm and starts to put the stethoscope somewh[…]
[…]of us.But none in the cast were there?Just those few nurses. And I reckon that’s why it doesn’t date.Really?Mm. Because it’s usually the women’s hair that sort of gives it away, even old JulieChristie in Zhivago, you know, with her little bits of traily bits down the side, it’s terriblysix[…]
[…], he was very creative, and he was very anti Nazi. Later on, as you know, were you working directly for Garfield? Prince honor Wagner was the gaichi chairman. Yes. Were you working directly for? Yes, I was. You see, in those days, there are only two people on the camera, the lighting camera man, who[…]
[…]o, standing behind his desk, a very short man, and they apparently came to blows and the actor said look get out from behind that desk, get off that chair and come in front of this desk where I can hit you, and Walter Mycroft, said I am standing up, the other guy collapsed practically with shock, he[…]
[…]itor.Reg Sutton: Not film editor, noRoy Fowler: Do you think the motivation was political?Reg Sutton: I wouldn't know that. I mean Gerald Sanger was chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Film Association for whom we used to make many films.Roy Fowler: And also did you not have several breaks fro[…]
