Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]nt.AG: Have you any idea what the impact of these films were once they'dbeen made?DB: Certainly Desert Victory had an enormous impact, it even won theOscar for the best documentary of that year. Burma Victory I think was agreat counter to the feature film which I think Errol Flynn made calledOperati[…]

Freddie Young

[…]of the film was shot in Spain not Jordan; Doctor Zhivago was shot in Spain – David Lean thought of making it in Russia originally; FY talks about his Oscar wins; Cubby Broccoli sent FY to Technicolor Hollywood to check the prints of You Only Live Twice; he recalls meeting Walter Pidgeon.[END]

Bill Girdlestone

[…]e been able to. I don't know with my cameramen. I mean, old Dick used to have a bottle of Pepe, Tio Pepe. And then another cameraman, chap who won an Oscar for a picture that was on last week Man for All Seasons, he wasn't bad, he was - I suppose he was nearly first class, he was adequate.Fowle[…]

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