[…]ere always three steps behind in equipment; Lesley Oliver; Jeff Bridge – accountant took over when JJ left; they couldn’t compete with Technicolor or Rank; all the Minder series, Danger Unexploded Bomb and World at War were printed at Humphries; JJ was the director of seven companies before retireme[…]
[…] or are you back on staff at BIP.C. D. I was freelance all the time. When I say freelance, it did include a year’s contract now and again mainly with Rankat Pinewood, but that was later on.R. F. Shall we look at the list? You've got ' Columbus', what did you do on 'Columbus’.C. D. That was because t[…]
[…]dors , that was a lovely film, a lovely director that had come from documentary  Pat Jackson , that wasn’t made at Pinewood,  that wasn’t a rank film, I rather think that was Shepperton. My next Pinewood film was my second favourite film was A Town Like Alice. I did little ones between The[…]
[…];of Pinewood rut and it was absolutely ready for somebody to just prick the balloon of ABC and Rank. And these films were really the forerunners of the social films that followed, in fact made by[…]
[…]erspectives with measures marked on them. He was a nice fellow.SC: Presumably he learned something from all that?EC: Oh, yes and of course there was Frank the Electrician. He was marvellous. I don’t know his other name. I must say he gave me more laughs than anybody I had ever met in the film indust[…]
[…]le he selected and found, the stars he made were the international ones. Oh yes I think one was lucky to sort of join his stable rather than, say the Rank stable (the Rank Organisation), certainly the ABPC (Associated British Picture Corporation) one you know, just narrow minded and petty.And certai[…]
[…]onscription or volunteering so you didn't know when you was coming out. And there was nothing organised. And the army was in chaos. Any of the middle rank of officers, when I say any, most ofthe middle rank of officers were either over officious because they were hoping to get a long term commission[…]
