[…]an the whole length of the frontier between Germany and France. And the French kidded themselves that this was impregnable, that ever since the First World War, that they just now needn't worry about anything at all. They rather, sort of kept their armaments at a minimum for that reason, thinking th[…]
[…]d nurse Williams came in and she confiscated my presumably I wasn't allowed chocolate. He said but I mean that really was sort of like the end of the world. But as I was concerned, I can remember that very clearly. I can also remember going back when they finally after whatever period was I know som[…]
[…]fered written the screenplay for it. I remember Houston off looking very, you know, he's hardly the smartest soldier soldier looking character in the world with a sort of pop baleen is battledress a bit arrived on the set every day. Sorry, touched your microphone. Now. Oliver Twist we got to Oliver […]
[…]ay, because, I quickly realised that, as an editor you could spend quite a lot of time with your children; if they were ill, it wasn’t the end of the world if the editor wasn’t there, and things like that. As a director, you had to be there from seven in the morning regardless or the whole film came[…]
[…] a Newman Sinclair camera; beginning work as a war correspondent; World War II: First assignment on a convoy to Malta; […]
[…]rything. And then the war started. Well, I knew I remember the ticker tape 1939 about the Germans had crossed the Polish border, and you suddenly the world seemed to stop. You thought it was all going to be like 19 1418, over again, because that's the only war you knew about. And of course, it wasn'[…]
[…]into film and what films were like at that particular time, what made you feel that way about them?Eddie Dryhurst: Well we're going back to the First World War, around 1916, '17, that period. Well I was a youngster at school and I started going to the movies on Saturday afternoons with my father, an[…]
[…] because I had an impeccable standard southern English accent and that was the accent I remember in my father who by becoming an officer in the First World War had adopted the conventional Officer's Mess accent. Now if I look back on it and think how that it would have been advisable given my politi[…]
[…]in. [LAUGHTER] And I won money on the race. But the trouble was the manager of the theatre, Frank Boare, quite a character in the theatre world in those days, he heard about it and he said, “Now then, you either stop this or get out”. So I stopped it. [LAUGHTER]ALAN LAWSON: […]
[…]not non denominational, and it was not a, it was not not so much a religious gathering as a gathering of me, because this is sort of candy. Was First World War. And I was a babe, almost Yes, sent away. Sent away during that time, down to mid Ted, actually. But he was, you know, terrific. I. A man of[…]
