[…], Ron Parnell came to me one day and he said, "How would you like a sabbatical?" So I said, "Where?" So he said, "I want you to go to a theatre which Rank has just taken over. It's at Marble Arch. It's called the Regal, Marble Arch." I said, "Oh." He said, "It's closed, but Rank are thinking of reop[…]
[…]e war. We didn't see that in London, but in Liverpool - shook me a bit that did.Charles Drazin: So why did Gainsborough close?Manny Yospa: Oh I think Rank took over - was it Rank? Or did Rank take over when Sydney Box...?Charles Drazin: I think Rank bought Gainsborough up when the Ostrers were there[…]
[…]ssful at that, and I thought sales would probably be more interesting and more exciting. So I elected for the sales and went into the office. I mean frankly there wouldn't have been any difference between an office junior in sales and an office junior in accounts because both were equally boring and[…]
[…]t. The rest came out and the Bush came out as well. Ted Scaife and the sound the sound boys stayed in although they were EBU. Les Hammond Ted Scaife Frank Sloggett and all those people they all were wise and stayed on the job, which was very sensible of them. And then that wasso what happened to you[…]
[…] any rushes – it had to be sent to Hollywood and they didn’t see any of what they shot until a year later.00:27:20 – 00:32:07 Men of Two Worlds was a Rank picture – DD joined Rank as this point, making Hamlet, The Woman in Question, The Browning Version, The Importance of Being Earnest; Hamlet – pre[…]
[…]er Forde was also making Rome Express. And the only people at all that we could go to, there was a man called Clayton Hutton who was a producer, and Frank Cadman, and they were making custard pie comedies with Naughton and Gold, and a man called Jack somebody who was the stand-in for - Jack Williams[…]
[…]ing and Callander and places like that. I remember the fall of France sitting in the mess and oneof these old dead-beats, the Colonel, a chap called Frankie Elliot, in the dead silence after the newshe said "Ah" he said "so the Frogs have packed it in bloody good thing too"! That was the sort ofappr[…]
[…]directed all three. And we went from strength to strength, Major Sassoon who was our chairman at the time, and the story of Two Cities is linked with Rank. he was distributing, we had a long term agreement with Rank at that time which was negotiated by Del 1 but many things happened in the interim, […]
