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[…]was easy enough to organise, if they could have got them, because there were two big groups. The Elstree group had a load of cinemas, was it? And the Rank group - I don't know what they were. So they, the NATKE, they wanted their members in to run the cinemas. Now eventually the ETU said, "All right[…]

[…]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 […]

[…]e Studio was as big as the Nissen hut, I mean the hut just, so it was very, very cheaply done, and was a great critical success, but wasn’t released, Rank refused to release it NS Really? JG I think it had about a couple of showings out of town and that was that. Don’t know why. NS Gr[…]

[…]lly I think it was quite an achievement actually.SC : It seems a very odd way of going about it, did you do it for an American company.CC: No, it was Rank, and the producer was, it's marvelous how clear your memory is, it doesn’t matter. I had to make it because I wanted money. It had a writer who w[…]

[…]ast.Roy Fowler: It was a problem picture for somebody because it went way over schedule and way over budget and it was the reason Carol Reed left the Rank Organisation. It was the last picture he made for Rank and he then went to Korda. There was at this time almost a lack of discipline, almost a la[…]