[…]e and we photographed that from beginning to end. A lot of stuff from the air and at sea. Nothing was ever shown of that till after the war.KGY: What rank did you go in.CC: I went in as a ordinary airman and I finished as a flight lieutenant.KGY: When did you come out.CC: After D Day. The funny thin[…]
[…] [In answer to indecipherable interruption - possibly identifying Wells as Rank's 'Gong Man'] Well of course he had played the […]
[…]e in - all in the pound. I got, let's see - there was a fellow named - I think he's been an assistant director, but he was assistant studio manager, Frank Covern or Frank Cohen as he was then. He's a very nice bloke and I think he's still around in the business somewhere, something to do with the Da[…]
[…]ntually a computerised database. So, I was entirely unqualified. However, I did get an interview. I don't know quite how- I didn't get the job - but Franklin invited me, Noble Frankland, who was the director at the time wrote me a letter afterwards because everything went through the Civil Service C[…]
[…]olved in the studio. I can't remember the I mean copies the films that exist anyway. But it had very great difficulty in getting distribution through ranks. I think they didn't want to distribute in wartime but it was. So then. I mean, I think, you know, as far as Merton Park goes, it had its own ca[…]
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[…] worked as Production Manager for the Independent Producers group at Rank on films such as Great Expectations (1946) and The […]
[…] alcohol and cigarettes but she, she remained and she had her family her daughter we knew who married she married a guy called Tony Wright, who was a rank star at the time. Didn't really amount to very much to be totally honest. Anyway, then, so surely they would Tony had a very sad demise. That's, […]
[…]sp;into the Royal Air Force was the great Mr handle which I think was also ranks first venture into the feature business other than the religious films which he[…]
[…] 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. […]
