[…]ow 'Drifters' came along.John Legard: 'Drifters!'Pat Jackson: And so, of course, Harry squeezed into the GPO Film Unit. He had, of course, worked for Robert Flaherty ('Man of Aran')... and it was from the arrival of Harry Watt that the 'preciosity' of the documentary movement was turned into somethi[…]
[…]ed some of its work was all of those were possibly I was it happened just before I came back and 48 it had been constituted under the general ages of Robert Watson Watt of radar fame. So a lot of his pet sciencetists were involved I've no idea what it cost the rank, J Arthur Rank Organisation to pay[…]
[…] the night after Pearl Harbour. And it was interesting to this extent that I cast it, I was more or less given very much a matter of a free hand, and Robert Donat played Nevsky and Peggy Ashcroft was Natasha, Sir Adrian Bolt of course conducted the orchestra. And despite the fact that this had been […]
[…]think in the first week or so when he arrived and he showed Scott of the Antarctic with John Mills and everyone else and in the course of that, James Robertson Justice decides that he's going to sacrifice himself outside in the storm and saying he'd be gone for some time or whatever and off her goes[…]