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CARRY ON SCREENING Bond seduced his beauties here, lost her bikini – and Keira Knightley got drenched. David James Smith roams the backlots of

WATER BABY: Keira Knightley gets immersed in her work xx during the fi lming of Atonement 27

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Wanted posters were asked if they had seen a foreign show both male and woman; they hadn’t. The police went through the female Ichihashis neighbouring apartment onto the balcony over- looking Ichihashi’s home. It was dark, but they were right next to Ichihashi’s balcony. He had ere nothing is ever quite her, don’t speak to them. This is my community, dragged his bath out onto it and Lindsay was what it seems to be. It should come as no surprise she said, they all know I’m the English teacher, I dead inside it with her hand sticking out, but Hthat the hand-carved solid oak entrance to the have to speak to them. When you’re on the train, the police did not see her. The police could see main building of Pinewood fi lm studios is just read a book, Bill told her. Don’t freak, Dad, there was somebody inside the apartment but, actually an extravagantly grand Elizabethan she said, it’s just crazy Japan. She was always say- their notes said, they could not go in because they fi replace, imported seven decades ago from a ing that. Crazy Japan. could not obtain a key. stately home in Derbyshire. It was set up on She thought it was crazy on Tuesday, March 20, Nearly two hours after the nine offi cers had plinths to make room for the doors beneath, which when a young man who had been sitting oppo- assembled, at 9.45pm, some were standing out- are from the RMS Mauretania, an ocean liner site her on the train approached her as she left side the apartment door when it opened and decommissioned in the 1930s. Pinewood bought the station on her way home from work. You’re Ichihashi came out, closing the door behind him. the bulk of its fi xtures and fi ttings at auction. my English teacher, he said, as she was getting on He had a rucksack on and was barefoot, in the It was here that Tom Humphries stood sentry, her bike. I’m not, she said. But you are an English Japanese tradition of keeping your shoes outside stationed at this opulent facade throughout the teacher? Yes, she said. your door. The police said: “You are Ichihashi and best and busiest years of the studio’s glamorous As she described it in an e-mail to Ryan, her we want to talk to you about a foreign woman and past, which is celebrated in a new exhibition of boyfriend back home, the man had run after her we want to come in.” They later said they could photographs from its heyday. As the studio’s as she cycled away and he had come to her apart- not “compulsorily restrain him” because they did offi cial commissionaire, Tom was a striking ment asking for water. Out of precaution, rather not have a “grasp of detailed facts”. fi gure in his peaked cap and braided blue uniform, than recklessness, she had invited him in so that Ichihashi turned back, took the key out and and even now, at 97, he still commands attention. he could see she was living with two fl atmates. received the missing-person report, at 5.40pm, began to open the door, then he turned away, Tom left Pinewood over 30 years ago, taking He had taken out a pen and paper and drawn that the police sent two offi cers from Funabashi pushed past the offi cers and ran off down the a picture of Lindsay there and then — that would station in Chiba prefecture to visit Ichihashi’s stairs. An offi cer grabbed at the rucksack, which have impressed her, Bill said — and signed it with apartment in Ichikawa City, one train stop from came off while Ichihashi kept running. He was 28 his name, telephone number and e-mail address. Lindsay’s home. The police had by now discov- and very fi t. Some offi cers gave chase but could He had not seemed scary, more ridiculous, and ered that although Ichihashi had no history of not of course use the walkie-talkies they didn’t Lindsay felt sorry for him and said she would try convictions, there was a previous allegation of have to give a quick alert to their colleagues to help. That was her nature. Once with her family “theft and injury” against him. The story was that downstairs. Ichihashi vaulted the last few feet a beggar had asked for money for tea and Lindsay he had assaulted a woman in the street during a from the open stairwell to the ground and kept had given him £2. Bill was furious and pointed robbery, possibly as far back as six years ago. The running. The offi cers in pursuit did not jump after SMOKING HOT out he was working all the hours God had sent Sunday Times Magazine was told that Ichihashi’s him — the Hawkers think this was for health-and- September 1961: Joan — running a driving school — to fund her educa- father, acting in line with Japanese law, prevented safety reasons — and Ichihashi ran off into the Collins takes a break during tion. Lindsay pointed out that the beggar had not the case going to court by paying ¥1m — around dense neighbourhood of apartment blocks. the fi lming of the comedy had the opportunities Bill had given her. As Bill £6,000 — to the victim to buy her silence. The police began searching for him and must The Road to Hong Kong said, they were a close, happy family with a com- The police carefully noted how, on discovery have been persistent as he suddenly reappeared, fortable lifestyle living in their safe little bubble. of this information, they realised that “Lindsay now wearing shoes that he must have stolen from NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER “And somebody popped that bubble big time.” August 1963 (left): and her daughter IT WAS HARD FOR BILL TO DESCRIBE WHAT ill and Julia don’t know if Lindsay con- HAD BEEN DONE TO HIS DAUGHTER. Liza on the set of Becket tacted Ichihashi again or if he contacted B her, but she made an arrangement to SHE WAS BOUND AND GAGGED DREAM LOVERS give him a lesson at the cafe that Sunday morning. WITH PLASTIC TIES AND SCARVES July 1965 (right): She did everything she was supposed to do. Nova Honor Blackman and advised teachers that it was all right to give private may have been the victim of a crime”. The offi cers outside a nearby apartment, and ran right past during the lessons, but only in public places and always leave did not arrive at the apartment until 7pm (by now offi cers for the second time, haring down the making of Life at the Top a note of where they were going and who they 10am Monday morning in , where Bill street, turning left and left again before disap- PREVIOUS PAGES: PHOEBE RUDOMINO. THESE PAGES, ALL IMAGES: GETTY were going to meet. Lindsay had given a formal and Julia were frantic and had still not heard from pearing, never to be seen since. with him some of the old glory – these days private lesson before and had often talked with Nova). They did not go and knock at the apart- Meanwhile, other offi cers had entered the Pinewood doesn’t even have commissionaires – ‘They were all heavy drinkers, those Carry Nova students in cafes after school. ment — apparently they could not do so without apartment and found Lindsay. It was hard for Bill but he likes to return every so often for a pint at The police were not informed by Nova that proper cause, even though they by now suspected to describe what had been done to his daugh- the bar, where he talked me through his scrapbook On people, , the lot of ’em’ Lindsay was missing until around 2.30pm on that Lindsay might have been the victim of a crime ter. She had been bound and gagged with plas- of personally signed photographs of the stars. Monday, March 26, the second day she had not — but instead observed some “doubtful points” tic ties and scarves, but only apparently after a Tom greeted them all every morning He won them over with his “happy smile” “They were all heavy drinkers, those arrived for work. had also tried to report inside, particularly that there was no light on, life-or-death struggle. Barely an inch of her when they turned up at 8am in their Bentleys (signed Kirk Douglas) and the “pleasure” (Rod people, Kenneth Williams, the lot of ’em.” her missing, but the message had not been passed but somebody appeared to be there. The offi c- body was unmarked by bruises or injuries, even and Rollers to begin work. “Good morning, Steiger) he gave them. He knew who produced Tom used to drink at the bar sometimes with on from one police station to another. Lindsay ers called for assistance and three more were dis- her feet. Lindsay was 5ft 10in and had learnt welcome to Pinewood,” he would chirp. He a fl op – among them Charles Chaplin, with the the pre-dried-out and was had left Ichihashi’s name and address on a note patched, and then, at 7.45pm, four more, making martial arts. But Ichihashi was taller — just knew them all and their foibles, and if he fi lm A Countess from Hong Kong; who was the always treated, never had to pay. He got on all in her fl at, so it was not exactly hard to trace him. a total of nine. It is worth noting that, even though under 6ft — and a black belt, constantly at the sometimes gets their names wrong now – Gina biggest tipper – Bette Davis, “£25 effi ng quid”; right with Bob Hope and can’t recall the name of The police timeline, made public here for the fi rst the police specifi cally thought it could be a hos- gym practising his own martial arts and habitu- Lollybridgedee and Candice Bergner, he said – and who liked vodka in their dressing room – the star in the next photo, what’s his name, oh, time, does not suggest they were in a great hurry. tage situation, these nine offi cers did not have ally cycling 25 kilometres every day. He had

28 he was clearly as sharp as a steak knife back then. “Be lucky, Tom, God bless”, wrote Sid ( James). who is it? That’s the one! . a REUTERS It was three hours and 10 minutes after they had walkie-talkies to communicate with each other. fi nally strangled Lindsay, breaking her neck. a 29

stm29028.indd28 4-5 The Sunday Times Magazine June 29, 2008 stm16029.indd 5 JuneNov 16,29, 20082008 TheThe SundaySunday TimesTimes MagazineMagazine 29296/11/0819/6/08 16:41:3817:28:29 LICENCE TO FILM Investigation October 1966: the huge AS TIME GOES BY purpose-built set of the Bond movie You Only Live Twice, he and many other offi cers do not go home for A police tarpaulin on 1930s The property tycoon Charles Boot starring days, even weeks at a time, but sleep on roll-out the back balcony buys Heatherden Hall estate, where he builds mats in the gymnasium across the corridor from of Ichihashi’s fl at Pinewood Studios. He takes on a partner, the PUSHING THE BOAT OUT the incident room. Tahisha told Bill he would not Methodist millionaire J Arthur Rank. Films such Far right: the set of The Spy rest until his boss’s promise had been kept. as ’s Talk of the Devil are made. Who Loved Me (1977), These offi cers are “salarymen”, in the great Blair’s legacy was considerably more helpful, complete with a huge water Japanese tradition of the hard-working employee in this case at least. After Julia wrote to him, 1940s Pinewood is dragooned into the war tank. The stage was who appears to place his job before his family. the prime minister’s offi ce called Warwickshire effort as a storage centre. Later, classics such Suspecting that Ichihashi might have tried to police and more or less ordered them to send as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist cannot destroyed by fi re in 1984 escape abroad, perhaps to Canada where he had offi cers out to Japan to support the Hawkers and stop the studios sliding into £1.5m of debt. once lived and studied in the city of Edmonton, establish liaison with the Japanese police. A sen- Budgets are slashed. MUSIC TO THE EARS April 1969 (bottom right): but knowing he had left his passport in his ior investigating offi cer, Detective Chief Inspector apartment, the police have investigated around Ally Wright, was assigned to the role and has now 1950s Commercial television cuts cinema Malcolm Arnold conducts an audiences. Pinewood responds with cheap but orchestra as they record 350,000 of the 700,000 passport applications been out three times to Tokyo. popular comedies for the big screen. Doctor in music for Battle of Britain made in Japan since his escape. Because pome- Wright is convinced that the Japanese police’s the House boosts British attendance fi gures granate juice is so unusual — even in Japan — they methodical approach will eventually pay divi- and Carry on Nurse is a hit with the Americans. obtained a list of retailers and went out and spoke dends. He has seen them working at close quar- to all of them, in case it might lead to Ichihashi. ters and says that he can see they are working 1960s saves the UK fi lm They have travelled widely throughout Japan, with the same determined ethos as the British industry. The franchise starts with Dr No. Other investigating many of the 5,200 reported sight- police would. He also knows they are feeling the Bond movies follow, including From Russia with ings of their suspect, many generated by 30,000 pressure of the family’s campaign to keep the Love in 1963 and You Only Live Twice in 1967. wanted posters the police have distributed. case at the forefront of public attention. In recent Ichihashi can have had little or no money with weeks there have been reports that Ichihashi 1970s J Arthur Rank dies. The weak him when he fl ed and has not attempted to access might have killed himself, but these have been economy causes further gloom, but his bank accounts. He had never worked but lived dismissed by the police. Superman fl ies in to save the day in 1978. on an allowance of around £600 a month from his him slip past them, was pretty much unbearable. As Wright put it, Ichihashi has to be lucky parents. The police are convinced he is still alive Bill fl ew out to Japan straight away, with a friend every day of his life but the police only need to be 1980s Fire breaks out on the stage where and in Japan. Naturally, they must be wondering and Lindsay’s boyfriend, Ryan Garside. Staff at lucky once to catch him. Bill and Julia would like ’s Legend is being fi lmed. The if he is being sheltered or supported by friends or the British embassy in Tokyo were helpful but Windsorto share had Wright’s thrust outcertainty her chest and and don’t her want bikini to be vast stage, originally created for the Bond family and, even though they are limited in their it was a different story at the Foreign Offi ce in topseen had topinged criticise off. Orthe atJapanese least that police was the but, under- fi lm The Spy Who Loved Me, was rebuilt and was a quiet sort and Sean powers of surveillance, there is some evidence , who assigned what Julia described as a illusion.standably, In reality they itstruggle had been to yankedget past by their a props frustra- named the Albert R Broccoli , in Connery always kept himself to himself that they are monitoring the family’s communi- “novice” to help them. mantion tugging that Ichihashi at an invisible was able fi shing to slip line. past them. honour of the brains behind the franchise. cations. He was otherwise said to be a solitary Julia asked if the FO adviser could come up to OtherThey fi lms continue such as to the be 1950s tormented, classic too, by the Tom was well in with Liz Taylor, but thought It is nearly 1pm on a weekday in Pinewood character with few friends, in stark contrast with Coventry and was told the FO never made home Genevieveunexplained had used details locations of the just case. outside They know The studio oversees the production 1990s Richard Burton a quiet sort and noted how Sean in June 2008. “In the old days, come one o’clock, the popular young woman he murdered. visits. Never? No. In disgust Julia wrote e-mails to theIchihashi gates in themust narrow have lanestricked and Lindsay fi elds of into the return- of fi lms such as Mission: Impossible, The Fifth Connery always kept himself to himself and never you could not get to the bar for actors, all having the then foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, and Buckinghamshireing to his apartment, countryside but how? that There looked, is some sug- Element and . seemed to drink, or ever prop up the bar. a drink before lunch. The restaurant would be indsay’s mother, Julia, told me she had to Tony Blair, who was still prime minister, and forgestion the time he being, was fumbling much as theyfor money always at had: the cafe as 2000s The Rank Group plc sells the Ursula Andress was lovely, Julie Andrews full.” Today it is all but deserted, would-be diners actually spoken by phone to one of the his wife, Cherie. Beckett was supportive and later a timelessthey left evocation and they wonder of the English if he claimed rural idyll. he had left company for £62m to investors led by the too, that Bond girl from 1963 who signed her perhaps put off by the Ikea-style furnishings that, L offi cers stationed outside Ichihashi’s raised the case during a visit to Japan. Tony Blair Theher fee private behind home and Heatherdenshe could come Hall to had collect been it. Or, media moguls and Ivan Dunleavy. photo in German (I think Tom means Daniela I am assured, are soon to be replaced. apartment on the evening he escaped. The offi cer wrote back, twice, and Cherie also replied. When ownedBill speculated, by various hadswells he includingdiscovered a Lindsay’sCanadian ambi- Pinewood merges with Shepperton and later Bianchi, whose voice had to be dubbed for her Tom escorted Barbara Windsor through was a woman who spoke good English, and Julia there was a change of leadership, Julia wrote fi nancier,tion to beGrant a GP Morden, and told who her becamehis own MP father for was a . Another fi re breaks out at appearance in From Russia with Love – she was the restaurant to the bar on her fi rst day at had been urging her to go into the apartment. Brentford and an Indian maharajah, K S the 007 Stage (below), while the set of Casino in fact Italian) but the kindest of all must be Pinewood in 1963 when she arrived to begin her The call had been made possible by some of ICHIHASHI CAN HAVE HADRanjitsinhji, LITTLE who playedOR test cricket for England. Royale is being dismantled after fi lming. But “Tom with all my affection, Sophia Loren”. appearances in a succession of Carry On fi lms. Lindsay’s teacher friends who had also gathered NO MONEY WHENThe vision of HE the 100-acre FLED. site as a fi lm studios Bond recovers, and once again averts disaster. One day Tom happened to mention to Loren’s Her fi rst one was Carry on Spying, a Bond outside Ichihashi’s apartment. Bill had been urg- belonged fi rst to a building entrepreneur, chauffeur that his own car was out of service. parody, and Windsor was in the role of Daphne ing them to break in. Poignantly, when we con- HE HAD NEVER WORKEDCharles Boot, who based his plans on a visit to Tom was going to cadge a lift off someone in Honeybutt. Tom and Barbara stood on the steps sidered the timeline together, it became apparent BUT LIVED ONthe new AN kingdom ALLOWANCE of Hollywood in California. the bar later, but Loren would hear none of it: of the busy restaurant and surveyed the scene that Lindsay’s body must have been discovered Boot soon found a colleague who shared his she came and told him personally she would give below. Gregory Peck was there, Sophia Loren. when these conversations were taking place. again, to the new prime minister, Gordon Brown, visiondoctor – Joseph and she Arthur could Rank meet –him and at Pinewood the apartment? him a lift home, even though it meant waiting It was glittering with stars. Barbara shivered with The fi rst Lindsay’s parents knew of what had and his foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, and this wasThen offi cially there opened is the missing as a studio memory in 1936. card from the half an hour until his working day was complete. excitement. Oooh, she said, isn’t this lovely? happened came not from the police but from the time she heard nothing back. When she and Bill Rankcamera came Lindsay to dominate had with the her. UK The fi lm camera industry, was Sophia Loren, waiting for him. He can’t Where do the stars eat now? In their father of one of Lindsay’s fellow teachers who were eventually invited to the FO for a meeting andfound one ofat his the early apartment writers butwas minusPeter Rogers,the card, and remember if it was a Bentley or a Rolls-Royce, Winnebagos perhaps, their luxurious mobile called to say they should prepare for the worst as with junior minister Lord Malloch Brown, he told whothey helped wonder defi what ne Pinewood it might have as the recorded. producer of but Tom said he was ready to hop out as they dressing rooms. In the week I was at Pinewood game.his ownI saw daughter her fl eetingly had rung as she him disappeared to say that a body fi lmingthem asthat you Ed wandered Miliband around. had received Goldfi nger and noted the CarryAbove On all, fi lms,why alongside was Lindsay’s his w ife,hand Betty raised up passed through the main road in Langley, the there were only two fi lms in production and a intohad the been same discovered. studio that Bill afternoon and Julia to prayed record ina vain Avenuetheir e-mails, had been and the Julia location thought, for the well famous why hadn’t Box,from who the worked sand and independently soil that he fromhad usedhim toto cover nearby village where he lived. couple of television shows. No pop videos or commercialthat Lindsay for Vodafone.might have It killedwas the her same student story and Astonhe bothered Martin crash to reply, scene then? from the Bond fi lm produceher? They a number dread of the Pinewood thought thatclassics she including might have “Tom,” Loren said fi rmly, “I said I’d take you commercials that week. Not many stars. I was onthe the body set of would Pinewood’s be his other but the fi lm, terrible The Wolf confi rma- of thatIt name.was an At uphill the back battle of thewith main the building,FO, and they thebeen Doctor buried series. alive For and years trying Rogers to reach went out.to work All the home.” It was a lovely summer’s evening and not permitted to visit either of the two fi lms. Man,tion which came will with star a visitBenicio from Del Warwickshire Toro and Tom’s police behindwere thenot fistrong replace, on was sensitivity, a series tellingof french the Hawkers everyexperts day in have a chauffeur-driven told them she was red dead Rolls-Royce. by then. the neighbours were out in force. Imagine what Not , the latest James Bond oldoffi drinking cers in thecompanion, early hours Anthony of Tuesday Hopkins. morning. windowsthat they that were had fortunate stood in forthat the the storming Japanese of police He isBut now they 94 wouldand in sayhis 55ththat, wouldn’tyear at Pinewood. they, said Bill, they thought. And there as they pulled up was fi lm with Daniel Craig and . It was OfIt course, wasn’t producerslong after thiswant that to preservethey heard the the sus- thehad Iranian seen embassy fi t to communicate in the fi lm Whowith them Dares and Wins. again Hewho continues has suffered to turn a upcatastrophic at the offi cebreakdown daily – of his Tom’s beloved Jessie tending the roses in their out of the question to speak to Daniel, and Judi secretspect ofhad their got fi away.lms until Twenty they months are ready later to this was Beyondthat they the were building fortunate were tothe have gardens been where able to bring drivenfaith by in hishuman carer nature in a Vau ■xhall – where he is still

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said Sophia. Now that was a real star for you. morning, recording the voice-over for a computer 32sense.and But what years he’d ago done, you andmight how stumble the police across had let momentFortunate? in Carry Were on they Camping insane, whenthose Barbarapeople? he www.lindsayannhawker.comhopes it will be called), to begin fi lming a 31 JEREMY SUTTON-HIBBERT

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THE BOTTLE OF BRITAIN January 1938 (below): giant models of champagne bottles at Pinewood Studios

as soon as he can get the money together. Since 2000 a new team has taken ownership A hundred naked people had been in the of the studios, led by Michael Grade and Ivan Dunleavy, whose company now owns the tank the other day for a face-cream advert studios at Shepperton and Teddington too. They began buying up land surrounding the equivalent of another . There Curtis had recently been here fi lming The Boat the site and announced Project Pinewood, an was already one Gerrards Cross nearby and they That Rocked, about Radio Caroline. Next to elaborate, ambitious scheme to double the size didn’t need a second. At a recent meeting, Lamb the Paddock was another pioneering facility, the of Pinewood. The project has its work cut out and others had become frustrated with, and indoor water tank, where they could give you persuading local residents and planning suspicious of, Dunleavy’s inability to answer one of the greatest illusions of all, known as wet authorities of the benefi t of developing 100 acres specifi c questions. It was hard to believe Pinewood for dry – the appearance of weightlessness, zero of prime home-counties green-belt land. Though had not looked at the issues. The villagers feared gravity, as if you were fl oating on air, whereas in Pinewood must also be canny enough to know being railroaded. “Pinewood has the ear of fact you were fl oating in the water. A recent that the government is actively looking for new government and opinion-makers,” said Lamb, advert had re-created a Paris apartment at the housing projects to relieve London. The project “and we are just a little parish with no clout.” bottom of the tank, a woman reading a magazine, hopes to create a unique mix of backlots for A wealthy parish, however, and no pushover. drinking coffee, then standing and drifting away. fi lming and residential homes for studio workers. Bill Lidgate was one of the South Bucks The water had to be exceptionally clean to Dunleavy has not even submitted a planning district councillors, and he could see all kinds of make this effective, and you couldn’t give the application yet – he expects to present something problems arising. Would there be families with actors red eye, so chlorine was out, and instead to South Bucks district council before the end of children, and, if so, where would the little ones they cycled the water every three hours through the year – but the resistance movement has be educated? What about sewage? Where would sand and ultraviolet lamps. A hundred naked already been formed. It is shaping up like a fi lm they put the wheelie bins? “We’re dealing here people had been in that tank the other day for a plot, though not so much Pinewood, perhaps, as with people who peddle illusion,” said Lidgate, face-cream advert. Keira Knightley had retrieved Ealing, famous for its comedies of English “but we are dealing in reality, and they are a broken vase from it for Atonement; Sharon manners and habits. One village, Fulmer, has frightening the life out of local people.” Stone had escaped from it in Basic Instinct 2, held some heated protest meetings. Other locals Dunleavy had already made some signifi cant after plunging into the Thames in her car while think Fulmer has jumped the gun and should changes at Pinewood to encourage new business. having some form of sex with her unlikely have waited until an application was submitted. But this is the movies, where nothing is ever co-star, the ex-footballer Stan Collymore. Ronnie Lamb, chair of Fulmer parish council, quite what it seems. No wonder the local Happily, only Collymore drowned. Though told me there was no time to lose. Much as they villagers didn’t trust the executives. not really, of course, as it was only a movie s loved having such a big player in the fi lm industry A short walk from the Foley room was the Capturing Film History in the Making, an on their doorstep, they were very unhappy about Paddock water tank – the biggest of its kind in exhibition showcasing photographs from Getty the housing that will be part of the development. Europe – with its vast blue screen that you could Images, and Pinewood’s archives, opens at

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