[…]nds of his, asking them to make suggestions who might take over, who might be suitable candidates. And two people nominated me. One was Sam Eckman at MGM, and the other was Ben Henry, who was closely connected with the hymns brothers and a great personal friend of the editors that happened. And then[…]
[…]s a pretty full large unit. It was distributed by MGN, but had very little publicity in the States. Unfortunately, Michael Kenner was very sore about MGM not giving him any publicity for the film in the States, so he didn't make much money,Speaker 1 27:35 probably making its money now, a[…]
[…]al theme.BE: Yes, that was about the economic depression of course, and it went into the Empire , Leicester Sq which is no longer with us, but it was MGM, it went as a second feature , very much a second feature, and it made quite a hit in really being a filler. I don't know if it would be interesti[…]
[…]dered away. We lost David then, much to my dismay and he didn't come back, as far as I was concerned, until 'Ryan's Daughter' which was occasioned by MGM-British Studio shutting and his wanting somewhere to dub and he said, "I'll go back to Pinewood." And that was a great pleasure for me and, I thin[…]
[…], 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,[…]
