[…] 61drunks, the fourth wasn't. But because John Mitchell was writing, he was a good writer, he wanted to go by boat and, of course, it was round about Suez time so he took a long time to get there and obviously on the tramps he started drinking again. And, in fact, in the hotel, the unit stayed eithe[…]
[…]ht, What's he going to say? So he said, he said, You're a very good camera man. He said, That's photographically Very good. He said, But you're a bad director.Unknown Speaker  31:51  So I said, Director, you know, they're all little wooden figures. So he said, wooden or whatever they are, […]
[…]own Speaker  5:58  that BBC had lost a lot of staff to ITV, of course, because there was nowhere else to recruit them from. So I joined the BBC.Unknown Speaker  6:09  It turned out not to really be my cup of tea, it was very formal. If you met somebody new that almost the first t[…]
[…]t anything else.  Ernest Maxin  24:13  After that, I produced and directed. I can't go through all the names now at the BBC.-  Jack Benny Eddie Fisher.  I found Dave King. That name means anything to you. He was a harmonica player in Morton Fraser's […]
[…] like that, at eleven o'clock in the morning. And when the lights went up, who should I see sitting in front of me but Jack Holmes who was the senior director. And I thought, "Oh my God this is it," you know, [chuckles] it's like being found out for truancy, I mean it really was bad news! And as he […]
[…]ery well but I can't imagine that was his first film.John Taylor: No it wasn't, no.Margaret Thomson: It wasn't?John Taylor: He was a well-established director. He started with Box and made a lot of films with.Margaret Thomson: Well he started with Gaumont [?] actually.Charles Wilder: Oh did he? Yes.[…]
