Peter de Normanville

[…] working with an often did work with, but in fact, the sponsors of the film, who were the Calcutta organisation, said no way. I'd already written the script there. They said that, you know, for you've got to have Peter because he's done the script and must direct it, but no other writers. And I didn[…]

Chris Menges

[…]d rereleases of your films? Have you been able to, kind of, think back to when you made it and, kind of…CM: Yes. I mean, I keep all… I’ve kept all my scripts, and I’ve kept all my notes so I know where to go but Kes is the only film that I’ve actually signed off on the grading. I mean, even Michael […]

Freddie Francis

[…]was going to be called up pretty quickly.I can't think I did anything after Stars Look Down because I was the wrong age, I'd just missed the first conscription, I was just a few days too old for that, so obviously when the war broke out I was just the right age for the call-up and I tried to get it […]

Keith Ewart

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Transcript – Jean Anderson

[…] ery Scottish understatement isn’t it. Margaret Thomson: Who wrote the script? Neil Paterson 27 was it? I know who it […]

Jonathan Balcon

[…] stage.  Roy Fowler  23:17  No.  Jonathan Balcon  23:17  I mean latterly he used to chuck scripts at me like "The Cruel Sea", he chucked "Kind Hearts" at me and I thought it was marvellous.  "The Cruel Sea" I thought was fantastic[…]

Stephen Peet

[…]got a job producer to start a film unit, what became called the Central African Film Unit in Southern Rhodesia, and he had been empowered to employ a script writer, who's name was Dennis Brown, and a director-cameraman, this being the nucleus of a little unit. I don't know the man's name. He worked […]

Charles Crichton

[…]rappy American, Ican't remember his name, he was typical, like a quota quickie type American, and then they send Zolly out and of course there was no script at all. Well you know the story about the cable, after Flaherty had gone out and nothing came back, they started sending urgent cables to him, […]

Christopher Challis

[…] on pony and foot. We worked all over India. It took two weeks to get there. That was the crew. Boothby had an audience with the Viceroy who read the script and then gave his blessing to the whole idea. Then we automatically got cooperation from the Indian army. Then Geoff Boothby got about half a d[…]
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