[…]e three Quatermass films.We did Quatermass with Val Guest directing. Brian Donlevy.2: And the second Quatermass and the third one I did, I did a bit on the third one at MGM, and that was virtually MGM people there because Hammer had stopped their production team then.Th[…]
[…]with the union guy, I directed the crew with the employer, and Paul Watson, who is now - I think he was like a trainee or something - he was with the third unit, learning whatever. And we made two one-hours out of this dispute, and it was very interesting, the crews stuck with the units, stuck with […]
[…] and said I'm not coming back.SC: Do you think you learned anything from that.CC: Yes, I learned to be jolly careful about going to America. SC : The Third Secret.CC: The Third Secret yet another picture I really made because I needed a job. I think it was quite an interesting picture. They still sh[…]
[…]me to stay on was I did. I stayed on there for two years, asked for a rise. I think I was getting 15 shillings a week then what as the projections as third and asked for rise and it wasn't forthcoming. So I wrote to Odeons I wrote to Granada's Odeon has offered me a job as third at the Odeon Southal[…]
[…]ed John Hanau and they jointly decided to make three test films in Italy. One was about zoos, one was about Rome called Rome the Eternal City and the third one was a pack of fox hounds which was called the Rome Hunt and these were the only fox hounds in Italy. He did these three films and Jack Cardi[…]
[…] was Mickey Anderson's first direction and I'd met Mickey Anderson as, I think he was second assistant director on 'French Without Tears' - second or third. And we both registered for military service as militiamen in - when was it? It was just the beginning of 1939, before the war. We went along at[…]
[…]: As far as I knew there weren't any problems.Roy Fowler: They didn't keep rewriting the script?Robert Beatty: They might have. I disappear about one third of the way through. Then they ran into the famous actor who was a bit of a drunk.Roy Fowler: Robert Newton.Robert Beatty: They had problems ther[…]
[…] biggest hirers of equipment anywhere in the world, because they had branches all over, and Sydney when he started was my ------ [END OF SECOND SIDE][THIRD SIDE]DB. You never aspired to going up the next stage - to directing anything?PS. No, not really; it didn't seem to me to offer what my line did[…]
[…]Odeon, Leicester Square. I didn't know anything about that. Nothing... And she brought this in and was all the thing, and then at the bottom, about a third, "The new wonder, the kinematograph. Inventor, William Friese-Greene". Well of course it was very short, and whatever the little film was, it wa[…]
[…]t into trouble because he was nervous, I think, about his script so he would write it sort of three times over almost, we really had to cut about two-thirds of his script out and then you got it, you know, it wasfine. [laughter] But, oh, and such a nice... well he was a very good friend of mine, I w[…]
