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[…] say that I can't use you' and it was a real threat. And I had quite an unhappy times in many ways. And he was also very much like officers and other rank. They went off to lunch and things together and I was left in the cutting room. I had to go at another time.John Legard: Disgraceful.Teddy D[…]

[…]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[…]