[…]as the script by Bill Rose and Corney [NB. Henry Cornelius] hawked that script all over the place, nobody wanted to do it. But finally Pinewood said, Rank said, "Yes we will do it." And now we come into the Pinewood - er, how can I put it? Where they said to Corney, "Oh you can't use the people you […]
[…]nknown Speaker  14:56  AndUnknown Speaker  14:58  that was that was best.Unknown Speaker  15:00  Days work I ever did, frankly,Unknown Speaker  15:08  the other great thing in my life, of course, which I have almost forgotten, was music. Before then, my mother[…]
[…]ost of my early years in the Canary Islands, and attended a number of schools actually, I think I only mentioned Bedales, but that was after all the cranky schools I think I attended, starting with King Alfred's, to St Christopher's...Additional speaker (unidentified): King Alfred's in Hampstead?Phi[…]
[…] it was called Deadwater and then I met a Murderer. It had quite a lot of fame at the time. That soon came to an end and then I went to not Rank but some religious film, a man called something Simpson at Riverside Studios and we made, it was for the Rank Organisation, the film was calledTr[…]
[…]s were clients so they were people from film laboratories who required training in these different courses. We also went out on location so I went to Rank laboratories in Denham around 1971, 1972, I still have the list of attendees there. A lot of them are very well-known people in the industry beca[…]
[…]when I got home, me Mother had a shock, because I must have knocked about two stone off meself! It was a very hot day and I never ate anything, just drank - on an August bank holiday - and then I cycled back. Anyway, to get back to George, we hit it off well by going to the theatres and cinemas, you[…]
[…] we put a year on this? I know we're now coming up into the early 50s. Because IRoy Fowler  30:45  was curious about what happened when the Rank Organisation came close to collapse in 48. Because prior to that, when you came back at least two years, it was very boy and industry.Dennis Kimb[…]
[…]e important thing, and through them, through that company, I met a girl who was a singer called Jean English, who was married to a guy who worked for Rank under Theo Cowan... their publicity department provided escorts for these young Rank starlets they had to go to premieres and people like... who […]
[…], and he always got a great reception from from the Naval people. And he had a habit, I don't know if it was deliberate, but he would ignore the high ranking officers, virtually just returned their salute, and he would talk to the men. I never saw him spend much time talking to the army officers tha[…]
[…]itish cinema had been, had flourished during the war but after the war it rather disintegrated I would say, there was the people who were working for Rank who then went to Korda. It was the era of Lean, Reed, and Powell and Pressburger. And then later Ealing which we were benevolent towards. But the[…]
