[…]h not given an actual premiere per se, David and Jane did a nice job in adding colour to the opening night of PEARL HARBOUR with an “honour guard” of naval cadets lining the staircase leading from the foyer to Screen One to add a little old school Showmanship as it used to be called! They also earne[…]
[…]about the boys and the staff. The staff, well my housemaster David Spinney who wrote that letter I just read to you, was actually in the Royal Naval Reserve. He was a tremendously keen naval man and 90% of our history lessons were taken up with describing the tactics of Rodney or Nelson. We l[…]
[…]ruthless American producers of the old days. Carl Foreman was who I met many years ago. We had a great rapport. He made very interesting films, ganze naval. Only remember the first one he made, and I know he had a varied career at the same time, he was a great human being too, and very imaginative p[…]
[…]there was the Army Film Unit yes under Hugh Stuart and Roy bolting.SPEAKER: M8The aria film unit which had John bolting and I remember that the Royal Naval filming it was certainly represented by Russ Lloyd resplendent in a naval uniform as he edited.SPEAKER: F2That's right.SPEAKER: M2Yes handcuffed[…]
[…]kind of family?Alan Izod 1:08 My father was, as described in various ways on the birth certificates of the four children in the family as naval pensioner, amongst other things, I forgotten what the others were. And my mother was the daughter of a country family in Scotland who subsequent[…]
[…]staging friends, David Newman, was at all the shots at the time. He was a major and they knew him And also for some reason Olivier was older he was a naval officer, I think was Pepsi adforum hadn't turned up at this point he was in the district. And they all used to go off and get him to travel to m[…]
[…]t above the gateway into the dockyard. Anyhow, from there and right the way through the war, I was fascinated by the navy, and eventually I went to a naval college at Pangbourne with the idea of going on from there. By the way, during my first term there I saw a film that had been made by a pupil wh[…]
[…] fascinated by the navy, and eventually I went to a naval college at Pangbourne with the idea of going on […]
[…]ery long before I got my call up a papers and I was told to report a border at Ealing somewhere and I went to this board which consisted of an RAAF a naval army armed with a lot of stills. I couldn't obviously take film because I have shown it to them so I took a lot of stills and they said to me th[…]
[…]en the novel came out because it had been disclosed anyway. Yes. So that I suppose covers I think we covered in the last interview. The fact that the naval commander, what's his What was his name, the star a different way. Had to grow a beard as well as his moustache. I think we covered that, didn't[…]
