[…]was that like then, as you were filming down at Bray, I believe, and not being a big fan of horror, what was that like, did you draw inspiration from Hammer?PS: No, I’d never seen horror films, or virtually not, so I wasn’t thinking of them, I was just treating it as a strange quirky film to be, or […]
[…] Well I made a film on his daughter called immediately eight Amelia and the angel which got the top awards at the time. With movie maker magazine and hammer to Sydney World Magazine and Ken Russell started off 16 mil. Tony Richardson. Carl rice Jack Clayton host also 16 now making these experimental[…]
[…]ringing up to put his bets on with my father he happened to mention that dear old Bill Haggett who ran the XXX department at BIP, always armed with a hammer, never saw Bill without a hammer, was looking for a clapper boy. So I said this is for me.So I went down and met the guy who used to run the st[…]
[…]en, while I was doing that, I had a phone call from my agent who was john redway in those days, saying, he'd been speaking to me speaking about me to hammer films who wanted to see me out in hammer, but they make horror pictures. He said, Yes. I said, I can't do a horror pictures. Why not? Think abo[…]
[…]rected a few bits of shots. So I was working on that with him. Eventually, we started to make a sort of a French newsreel journal the gear and Robert hammer came in to edit that because they had to have somebody who speak French. But then of course after the fall of France, it all just disappeared.R[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]s either Mr MaGoohan or me. So I left. I had made a dozen one hours by then so, in a way, it was right that I left. But then I went to work for Hammer. I did their only musical, I went in to do a musical called Oh What a Crazy World [sic, What a Crazy World, 1963] and it had in it Brown.[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]m as a filmmaker. And movie but those programs did very well. And it was after that the discussion started that I and then a lot of other people were hammering away and hammering away in Hemingway after all and can only hammer away at the BBC virtually then. And. And in desperation the BBC said alri[…]
