[…], Pinewood, Denham, Riverside Studio, Gaumont-British, Fox in Wembley, all the studios that I worked in you see. When they were busy I would nip in - MGM, and all that you see. But there was 'Cleopatra'...Sidney Cole: Well 'Cleopatra' was shot at Denham, that's right.Tom Peacock: They started...Sidn[…]
[…]were satisfied. Were youSpeaker 1 9:22 that worked? I had, we had blanket deals with Andy worker at Shepparton and and and whatnot out at MGM and it all. I mean, the studio didn't like it too much, but they made sure that when they read the script, they estimated how long it takes to bui[…]
[…] beginning of AR When Hal Mason ran me up and asked me to go back as head of casting, because it was at the time that Sir Michael was linking up with MGM. But by then, I was into television and rather liked it, so I thanked them kindly and refused well,Speaker 2 33:42 just as well, reall[…]
[…] thought we could make it have some sort of social content as a comedy. And it didn't really work, it was financially not a success and in the States MGM re-edited it without permission from myself or John Bryan who produced it. And I think after that we had really quite a bad patch, we were over he[…]
[…] I mean, we had, as far as I can remember, this is what, twelve years ago now, at that time we had about 40 static camera crews, which is bigger than MGM or Paramount or Universal in their heyday, either before or immediately after the war. It was a fantastic number of people that we had down in the[…]
[…]hen they all got on the bus they said oh no there's a car for you, and I was taken there and champagne at the airport, and somebody said you are from MGM aren't you. We went out to Melbourne and we had a night in Singaphore and we'd, Arthur said you're going out, you've done these motorracing films,[…]
[…]h Evansand Richard Burton and Mary Ure, etc.,etc.. Tony wouldn't come anywherenear the post-sync tent. That was that. They took it away, took it upto MGM and Bates, Bert Bates cut it. Now I only wish I had not made thatremark because I gave them a handle to have a change. If they had donethis, and I[…]
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