[…]sman, a distributor. He knew nothing whatsoever about making films. And they built the studios and had one possible two writers there. They then engaged people, sometimes without having the films, that's not new, it's old but not new.And they had one overall writer[…]
[…]riod and has just finished off a film that we're taking, that we bought before we'd seen it. It's a film based on er - I'm sorry I can't remember the writer's name, it's about um - it's about the holy water, that people are getting ill from it and it's finally located that this is what is causing th[…]
[…]d film-makers. The ones who have something specific to say are few and far between, because scripting is somehow, there's only one outstanding script writer, and that's Stan Hayward. And Bob Godfrey really depends on him no end for his films. He writes the scripts for practically all Bob's films. Bu[…]
[…] One dram will be served per guest.SC : Our contribution to the history of malt whisky industry.CC: But we went to talk many years before that to the writerSC: Eric Linklater. We went to see him in the Highlands, a story which didn’t get made. We didn’t make it, it was made by Group 3. Tell us about[…]
[…]Y: He wasn't like William Wyler who would make take after take.CC: He was more like Billy Wilder who was quite different as a personbecause Billy's a writer primarily, he has no visual sense at all. I don't think Billy SIDE 3, TAPE 2CC: Although he had no visual sense he never took onr unnecess[…]
[…]the stock market crash and they're in debt to CityCorp for£100 million and City Corp, with the writer's strike in the States and the fall generally in production and the high pound, they've been having&nbs[…]
[…] Inspector Ernest Haigh, one of these stories was filmed by H.B. Parkinson as Lost, Stolen or Strayed in 1921 in which Haigh is credited as writer and cast member] I was playing a small part in it, the boy I suppose. I'll always remember this because they put me into a trunk on the se[…]
[…] young accountants take that exam I suppose to come fifth was quite good. So he must have been pretty brainy. His other brother Laurie Wylie he was a writer and used to collaborate with my father sometimes I suppose on screen plays, with his brother Julian on er the libretto and the script for shows[…]
[…]t director at the time. She was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edgar Wallace, apart from being a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios[…]
[…]And he was also very particular who wrote the script for him, that's how he came to have Harold Pinter.Wyn Ryder: He didn't always have the same writer. He would obviously send it back for alterations.Reggie Beck: Oh yes. Many meetings together and discuss a script in detail until it was d[…]
