[…]u know.PF: Another film you worked on in the 70s was Vampira, also known as Old Dracula, working with David Niven. Obviously, a parody of some of the Hammer films from that time. How did you approach that film? Did you have any references to some of the older horror films?EH: No, I didn’t actually. […]
[…]ave IB prints”, not because they prefer IB prints, but purely because they have a deal. You would go to Technicolor and say, “We’re going to make six Hammer productions and we’ll put them all with you. What’s the rate going to be? We will be shooting a hundred thousand on each, so there will be five[…]
[…]The reason she knew him was obviously she’d wanted odd bits of engineering stuff because he ran this special effects company, and he did film, mainly Hammer films at that stage, that sort of stuff and I got a holiday job in his studio, which was, putting it mildly, fascinating. They were doing two f[…]
[…]he Harwich flea pit. Yeah. The story was that when people came through the front of the cinnabar, bought their ticket, the manager gave them a little hammer to be returned. After decimating the flea brigade and Speaker 1 19:46 then going back to the sprays at the usherette[…]
[…]or it, you admit that –HF: Oh yes. I once nailed Gerry Campion to the floor when he was sleeping, on one of these things. I said to Tony – we got the hammer and nails from the boys behind the scene. He was lying on the floor with his jacket open so quietly I tapped nails into the jacket and of cours[…]
[…] Had some lovely clothes, did a torrid love scene with Richard AttenboroughI: But Good Time Girl, that was again a turning point. That was Riverside, Hammersmith?JK: No, no no that was Gainsborough. That was something to get your teeth into. Oh I remember that was that freezing winter and they[…]
[…]d their life by having kids. On the other hand it was an extraordinary small unit because having abandoned his home in the two rooms he grew up in in Hammersmith, which I’ve only now in the last year seen.SF: Ah.Only three years ago did I find out anything about that missing family. We had what I fe[…]
[…]er: So what after that then? O.H.M.S.?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well it was a question that by the autumn of 1935, the old banks were starting to hammer on the Ostrer's doors, and with six pictures, I imagine that must be several million pound even in those days out in production money. And they[…]
[…]..Alan Lawson: [Laughing]Cyril Page: ...and errm...we got rid of that quick, because er...being recognised from the air. It had all the stars and the hammer and sickle on the top! [Laughs] We thought we'd better get rid of that! But um...No, it was...it was quite an experience, and er...I came home,[…]
