[…]a fair amount of money. Because I was supposed to get a...Alan Lawson: ...a retainer?Bernard Vorhaus: Yeah. And I was offered a - the head of um - oh Republic Pictures...Sidney Cole: Oh yes.Bernard Vorhaus: Herbert Yates, saw a couple of my films and was quite impressed and offered me a job, and so […]
[…] while I was at home my stepfather had got talking to somebody in Clacton. And he this person gave me an introduction to the managing director of the Republic Pictures. Who were in Soho Square almost next door to where the city office was if they were on the corner of service American republic La Ra[…]
[…]we’ve still got a little tape left, let me just ask you if there's anything more about Weimar that you would like to say?About who?Weimar, the Weimar Republic, your life and times...Oh Weimar Republic, oh my dear, you count that.Well...That was...The, the, you were talking about Bergner and all the […]
[…]r D Day. And I happened to know Spielberg and cut a long story short, although we didn’t get the beach head because that was done on the coast of the Republic of Ireland. Not because it wouldn’t have been for ever other reason better to shoot it in the UK because this is where the production infra s[…]
[…] the chief result of winning the Academy Award for was that the film was taken on by a British distributor who of course was an American distributor, Republic Pictures. So Thursday's Children was distributed by Republic and did get some showing.Norman Swallow: If I can add a personal footnote, you'v[…]
[…]rer; JB went to Peru and Venezuela, but settled on Ecuador; the studio were unhappy with shooting in Ecuador so the location shifted to the Dominican Republic. Side 400:00:00 – 00:10:50 Shooting Sorcerer in Dominican Republic; the bridge sequence was an issue as they needed high water in the ri[…]
[…]also expected to read the entire canon of Greek and Latin literature within one year, which if you look at the length of certain things, like Plato's Republic, is quite subtle. And I realised, though I was pretty good grammar. So far, I never really had a feel. I got rather involved with the sociali[…]
