[…]a very expensive material on top. They had the patent for that. Victor couldn't use it. You see, Victor couldn't get records was quiet. They were all shell act records. Then, you see, but then we changed over to Victor because they wanted the artists, all these things get done by the by the commerci[…]
[…]anise the whole thing that we had to start at six o'clock in the morning, they had to have their proper uniforms taken off, and our uniforms torn and shell blown and full of gunpowder, we had to make them up with bandages, like the men coming back from Dunkirk. And it's one of the most exciting scen[…]
[…]ut the First World War about young men going off and not coming back. PB-C: Yes. No this was the Second World War, but about a chap who had been shell-shocked in the First World War. DB: Ah. PB-C: It proved to me how difficult in some ways directing must be, for Directors because, I w[…]
Unknown Speaker 0:00 like this, we keep it small and nice team. So weUnknown Speaker 0:10 need to go live. Okay nowDerek Threadgall 0:13 what we're going to do Barry if you will say who you are andUnknown Speaker 0:23 when I was born and where you reme[…]
[…]born, where you grew up, and something about your education. RS: Okay. I was born in 1948 in Istanbul, Turkey because my father used to work for Shell, the oil company, so I have two older sisters who were born in Brazil and I was born in Turkey. My family moved when I was about six to The Cana[…]
[…]rs? [Pause] As I say going around with a begging bowl. Mm, the union in the early days, union members contributed. One or two individuals. Shell BAFTA gave us fifteen hundred pounds. Mm, I don’t know, mm, [Pause] our principle source of any income. We had some from the union, a few hundre[…]
[…] contrary inventing rules that unless you're very careful, and I had a useless Production Manager, I'd hired this bloke who just kept on going into a shell all the time and so crying. So he was pretty hopeless. So I don't know we, but we just sort of managed it. I mean, I think, you know, I think on[…]
[…]y Roy Clark, who's a well known TV writer and he wrote it for Alec Guiness read the script. And there was another part in in the in the script that a shell shocked war veteran they only had two lines to say in the whole film. And he said I would like to play that part. It wasn't written for him that[…]
[…] not be alive today, today. But I was very small when he told me the story. And I turned around him and I said, did you live with us? But he was very shell shocked as well after? He was Yes, he was taken away from the front, but I'm not sure if it was. He was. I think something like that was likeUnk[…]
