[…]before that I think we were going to make another one - yes that's right. Because of the success of Square Peg Norman made a deal with the Americans, United Artists, with John Bryan as the producer...with Stuart Burge and all this kind of thing...it was called Once a Crooked Man [NB There Was a Croo[…]
[…]ust their policy. I had this when I worked there.Sidney Cole: What an extraordinary thing!Kay Mander: I'll tell you another one in a minute about the United Nations - I haven't got there yet!Sidney Cole: But Shell - you don't understand why Shell had that policy?Kay Mander: Well, it was a policy of […]
[…]ker  26:27  I can't say that. I do really, because the only ones I've got down is the amazing quest of Ernest bliss, which was made for the United Artists. I'm not sure where that was made, then there's dreams come true. Denim, you wouldn't, you wouldn't,Unknown Speaker  26:47  m[…]
[…]ms with Erich Pommer who was the producer. He wanted to change the ending which was difficult to do with a Hitchcock film – Hitch had gone off to the United States. He found he couldn't change the editing because Hitch used to shoot in such a tight way. It was always said that if he wanted to say ye[…]
[…]t at least for a few days of oh my god, I've really made a horrible mistake, I'll get fired.Simon Rose  25:11  And I guess this company was united motion picture. Yes, that's right. It wasn't quite as grand as it is it sounds about how many people that is employSpeaker 1  25:22  […]
[…]t at least for a few days of oh my god, I've really made a horrible mistake, I'll get fired.Simon Rose  25:11  And I guess this company was united motion picture. Yes, that's right. It wasn't quite as grand as it is it sounds about how many people that is employSpeaker 1  25:22  […]
[…]loved that job at the time. And I was a bit tired after about sixteen years of slogging away there; and I already taken one big sabbatical off in the United States – David very generously allowed me to use two year’s holiday to do that but it told me that I needed a kind of proper break. So, without[…]
[…]t was really beginning to influence us.10.49: The important political documentaries that were emerging at the time, particularly perhaps in the United States, as protest films, the Newsreel collective, the Women’s Newsreel Collective and so on, and, then the beginnings of the possibilities of […]
[…] three times, he was widowed, and then he always married a cousin or something. There were three generations of children - one generation went to the United States and the family name was Zahler and in Hollywood there are some Zahlers - one composed music for a lot of republic second features and hi[…]
