[…]asionally. And then finally I got my first break as a production manager on a film called The Treasure of Monte Cristo. It was going to be made up at Pinewood. I can't remember what year that would have been now, but it would have - I suppose coming up to the middle, late fifties. And it was going t[…]
[…]out ten days before the war started. And I managed to get the last eighteen months of my career in the RAF, I got transferred to the RAF Film Unit at Pinewood Studios. And one day I was sent for by our commanding officer, which was Teddy Baird, and Pat Moyner[?], and they said, "The Rank Organisatio[…]
[…];But that's what happened to me, you see? The money was not put behind me at any time.Roy Fowler: But did you have any desire to go and work for Pinewood, for Rank, or ?Vernon Sewell: No, I wouldn't!Roy Fowler: Because what? Again, company politics, presumably?Vernon Sewell: Yes,[…]
[…]me, "Well Richard Attenborough is going to produce it." So he and I - he and I knew each other because when I was in the Army Film Unit he was around Pinewood making a film for the RAF Film Unit - he was in the RAF as a...Rodney Giesler: Journey TogetherJohn Krish: Yes exactly. So - in fact we had b[…]
[…]ing is that his name escapes me, it was John, and I cannot at this moment remember it. But he was the man who virtually invented independent frame at Pinewood; do you know who I mean? I wrote to him too and on the strength of the past acquaintanceship with my father, he said well come and see me, br[…]
