[…] a very long time, that movie." But it did me a lot of good you see, it was the first major picture I made, you see.Roy Fowler: That was British National, was it not? The production, did they finance it, British National?Vernon Sewell: No, it was an Alexander Korda film.Roy Fowler: Oh[…]
[…]ee laws on the statute book which is an incredible achievement. To do one in the course of one parliament is an achievement, he established the national parks, the town and country planning act and the new towns RG: Which is not only three acts on the statute books but three acts of such […]
[…];Working for it you know working with a Swiss company in London perhaps an international company anyway. But anyway having arrived at Cambridge I then joined the Fil[…]
[…]way, it all went well for just six months, because I joined in August of '35 and B&D was largely destroyed and quite a large part of British International Pictures next door, by the fire, the Ostrer[?] fire of February I think it was... '36. So that everything came to a rapid halt. I went home o[…]
[…] - I did a Brian Rix picture at the Gate National as they they set up. He set up a […]
[…] you, the money people? Edward Carrick: The money people. The National Film Finance Corporation. Such a nice man. He asked […]
[…] they shut down at Denham, when he went to the National Film Board of Canada and I think did very […]
[…]s a student production. Now to pay tribute to a Head of Drama, who at that time was Michael Barry, who presumably read the reviews, which were in the national papers - The Times and The Guardian - which are excellent - The Telegraph. I got a phone call from the BBC asking if I would book two seats f[…]
[…]nds of things went through my mind. So you won't believe it. The other one came to me is on the same. Now I heard afterwards it was a Dodge to escape national service. If you're a little narrower, whether they were just playing it up because they had to I don't know. But anyway, the one the second o[…]
[…]t think it achieved very much in its life. My first contact with Carl Foreman was on a film called The Mouse that Roared which was a skit on the international scene with the Americans meeting the Russians and things like that. It was quite a good film, lots of sound effects any rate. Much more sound[…]
