[…]nce the cats get in. Shut the cats off there turn the lights on and leave the rest to me. Simple enough. Found a lo' flat. And he suddenly produced a naval revolver and discharged it into the ground with a BANG! Those cats fled and there was only one place they could go which was through Harry Laude[…]
[…]bsp;us great acclaim and we did the whole thing and the whole of the whole naval staff of Gibraltar was in the film. They all lined up to meet this so[…]
[…]our Chief, our Manager, the Studio Manager - name was Captain Brownrigg, famous...Alan Lawson: Oh yes, yes, Brownrigg yes.David Robson: Brownrigg, ex-naval chap. He used to go to America once a year to see what was happening in television, see if there were any ideas he could pick up. And he was ove[…]
[…]s previous history, as far as I know it, was that he made a number of films for the cinema, silent films, on reconstructions of great battles, or, or naval events, I'm a little hazy, I remember one was Zeebrugge, First World War events. And he had his own company called British Films, and that's how[…]
[…]w. And even then sometimes if the penalties are nottoo great. Denis Forman: Security was a problem. Tremendous fusses about shooting atCheltenham and naval secrets, spies and things like that, people get frightfully excited about it.From the point of view of practical common sense I don't think anyt[…]
[…]Lady Edwina Mountbatten.42What bad taste.SF: That’s very bad taste.[Laughter] Dear oh dear.SF: Yes. But it just as, like the Queen and this communist naval lieutenant, you know, the Queen Mother.Oh the Queen Mother.SF: Yes.Well, she’s got bad anyway. [Laughter].SF: Anyway.I kind of ignore all them. […]
[…]d in the programmes and everything, they decided to have an opening night office under the administrative system – another captain, ex-naval captain, lovely man he was – and I was to be secretary/assistant on the opening night office. And it was wonderful, it was a scream. I[…]
[…]where?Anthony Mendleson : Where?Linda Wood : Ah hmm.Anthony Mendleson : London.Linda Wood : London, yes. Did your family have any connection with the film industry or...?Anthony Mendleson : No not at all.Linda Wood : Not at all...?Anthony Mendleson : Ah hmm.Linda Wood : And, did you go to the cinema[…]
[…]ty air squadron there so you were exempt for your first three months training and then went almost immediately to America and trained there, American naval air stations in Detroit and in Florida.John Taylor: Go on about your time in the airforce.Jimmy Gilbert: I think one reason, one of the reasons […]
