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[…]os Angeles where a friend put me up and I met this man called Bill Burnside who was Alexander Korda’s representative in Hollywood.  And also for Rank organisation. He was to sell English films during the war and shortly after.NA: He was like a sales agent?00.12.13CL : He was a top publicity sal[…]

[…] Night Out and it had Renee Houston and Claude Hulbert. And the vamp, they had things called vamps in those days, was none other than the future Mrs Frankovich, in other words Binnie Barnes. And [laughs] the director was a very nice character but not exactly a dynamic director, called Harry Hughes. […]

[…]s out. But he did say they were enlarging the premises, and they were going in more for 35 millimeter stuff, and they would let me know. Well, quite frankly, I thought it was a matter of a sort of a dismissal, but I was very surprised some weeks later that they decided that they wrote to me and said[…]

[…]t right but they got it right and it worked remarkably well in the film. So that was that. That took us, I suppose, to early '46 and by this time the Rank Organisation was splitting its production activities between Two Cities Films and Independent Producers. And Two Cities remained at Denham and th[…]

[…] of those days that were in cinemas?Jack Rockett: I don't know if I can remember the titles. [Pauses]Sidney Cole: Some of the Korda?Jack Rockett: The Rank one of - oh, titles!Sidney Cole: What was it about?Jack Rockett: Took such a lot of money. It cost very little to make. It was a Rank picture.Sid[…]

[…]’re going in as liaison for us.” “Liaison to who?” I said. “Polish Air Force”. So, there I was, two thousand Poles and twenty-six Englishmen, highest rank Flight Lieutenant. All called each other by our first names. The paymaster came up to me one day and said “Look here, you’ve got to collect some […]