[…]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[…]
[…]aris and I had a couple of weeks in Paris both on the way there and on the way back and attended one of these is live classes where you pay somebody pranks, and you can go in and talk and also went to the Louvre and entertain myself in that way. But the tool was interesting. It was 1939. And when I […]
[…]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[…]
[…]e. You only have to listen to it on the radio, it's pretty awful. It's 4 cowboy chords and 3 of them are wrong. And that's a big huge success, like. Frank Sinatra and some of the big bands and some of the jazz, there is a following for it in this country but it wasn't enough for me to make a living […]
[…]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[…]
[…] one suffered after he war with live television plays. That was horrific. Filming, I think that the first filming I did was the very first films that Rank made. He was he was the Miller, but we gathered he was a Methodist. He was a Christian. And he wanted to make films with a Christian message. And[…]
[…] 15:16 India, I suppose, and tell me the wartime service was it very elegant and GI and cast full of class distinction officers and other ranks.Henry Seward 15:30 Oh yes but I can't complain. I had a marvelous time. I was maybe one of the lucky ones. But I had a timeof […]
[…]aboratory. And later on he came over to Pinewood, was a Dubbing Mixer for a while and then went off. I last saw him, he was in one of the Rank Research places.Q Was he not at one stage in charge of sound at The Bush?A […]
