Born 1932 in Bristol. Father worked for Wills Tobacco. Lived in Yeovil then Salisbury. Mother a Catholic. Sent to Irish Christian Brothers in Bath at age of 7. Escaped at 15. Obsessed by the cinema. Parents disapproved of it. Became articled to an accountant for 5 years. National Service in the navy which alerted him politically. Social education from two years on the lower deck. Iceland fish wars. On release joined Commercial TV. Became a teleprompter. Worked with all television companies. Observed the business and met many people. Artists loved you. Hilarious moments when prompter speeds up. Working from a Welsh script. Started writing during days off. Met who was looking for a play on euthanasia. Not used but led to other commissions. Scripts for advertising magazines. "Jim's Inn". Through Lloyd Shirley became editor of "Sunday Break" for two years. Description of their nature. Presenters included Polly Toynbee, Gus MacDonald, Joan Bakewell, Richard Lindley etc. Let room in flat to Robert Stigwood. Stigwood commissions him for programme on Stephen Ward with director Jimmy Hill. Programme cancelled. He and Hill make programme on funeral directors. Took the idea to Tim Hewitt at "World in Action". Joined the team. Derek Granger takes over. Working methods. (45'36")

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More on working for "World in Action". Radio pirate ships. Pop groups. Freemason programme banned by the Board. Experiences of doing a programme in Vietnam in 1965. Crewing anomalies. Could see the hopelessness of the war. Americans remote from the population. The insanity of the war. Programme on the Chinese outside China. To the U.S. in 1963 for programme on Skinner and the baby box. Then moved on to a programme on Barry Goldwater. Teamed up with the Maysles brothers. A joyous way of working. American idiosyncracies. Nightmares in Dallas. Times of great paranoia. Interviewed the UAW leaders (Reuther Brothers) in Detroit. Six teams working on "World in Action". Impressions of America. Extremes of poverty. Massive underclass. John Bloom. Vetted by Lord Goodman. After two years moved to "Tempo", arts programme at ABC. Production methods. Used Allan King's Canadian technicians. Accountancy experience useful. Programmes went out on Sunday afternoons. (45'30") End of Side 2.

Final remarks on "Tempo". Moved as a team on to another series on crime. Approached Westinghouse for backing, but abandoned project. Devised and produced "Sound and Picture City" for the BBC aimed at young audiences. Clash with Tony Palmer. BBC stole the show from him. Appalling ethics. (Further clash with them in later years on "The Healer".) Returns to Thames and Lloyd Shirley to make children's series "The Tyrant King". First experience of actors. First filmed drama "Suspect" for ABC. Story behind the production. Followed it up with "Rumour". A flashier film set among rat pack journalists. Backlash when it was reviewed. (45'40") End of Side 3. "": how it was set up and produced. Meeting Michael Klinger. Barry Cross his agent. Klinger gave him the book "Jack's Return Home." North east milieu familiar from his navy days. From novel to completion of film took 32 weeks. Budget £750000. came on board at script stage. Writer/director fee £8000. Recceeing locations with Klinger in his Cadillac. Strong part played by N.E. locations in the film. Influenced by experiences from "World in Action". How he chose Wolf Suschitsky to shoot it. A gentle man for a violent film. A very smooth and satisfying film. Michael Caine a true professional. His directing style. Learning all the time. "Get Carter" very successful commercially and critically. Next film "Pulp". Original script this time. Based on the Montesi scandal. How the story evolved. Its relationship to "Get Carter". Different shooting style. A happy experience. Mafia prevented it being shot in Italy. Chose Malta instead. Great cast. (45 mins)

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Audience and critic reactions to "Pulp". Financial differences. Left Klinger. Importance of relationship with producer, nursing projects. Goes to Los Angeles in 1973 and makes "The Terminal Man" from Michael Crichton novel. Studio gave him full creative control. The American way of death. Choice of shooting style without colour and only a piano score. Influence of Edward Hopper. A very successful film for him. Differences between working with actors and stars. Contrasts in working methods between British and American crews. Joy of working in studio conditions. Uninfluenced by but not constrained by locations. Worked with storyboards for the first time. The story of "Holiday Magic" weekends. Embraced extreme capitalism. The cutting edge of materialism. Contrasts between American and British attitudes to living. Became a script called "Mid-Atlantic". A black comedy. Too subversive for Warner Brothers. Still trying to get it made. (45 mins)

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Next assignment: "Omen 11". Producer Harvey Bemhard neurotic about money. Fascination with Chicago. Problems with people on the production. Leaves the film after two weeks. Returns to UK and meets Dino de Laurentis. Persuaded to direct "Flash Gordon". Art director Danilo Donati. Terrified of the extravagance of it all. Tries to escape. Decided to relax his approach to survive. Organised lunacy. Had to improvise all through. Great enjoyment directing it. How he handled Dino, who took his films totally seriously. (41 mins)

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More on Dino de Laurentis. "Blood & Thunder", a script for . Script on a secret comedienne. ("Say Goodnight Lilian, Goodnight"). Never shot. Echoed by film "Punchline". Missed the protection of a good producer. Divorce. Made "Missing Pieces" in for CBS in U.S. Strict censorship in American TV in those days. Illness interrupted shooting of "Buried Alive". Never paid. Hit rock bottom. Revived by shooting "Squaring the Circle" by Tom Stoppard. Voytek Romain designed. How is was made for Southern Television. Synthetic sea. Holding American contribution at bay. Success in U.K. Fulminates at dreadful music for U.S. version. (45'20") End of Side 7. Final comments on American version of "Squaring the Circle". US version never shown. Never told of awards it won. Working with Federico Fellini. The Italian way of making films. A family affair. Directing styles. Making "WOOD" for Home Box Office in the US. A delightful experience. "" with Mel Smith and . Difficulties of working with television orientated people. Stuck with it to completion. "Florida Straits" for HBO, shot in Shelby, North Carolina. Brought over British crew. (45'50") End of Side 8.

Creating Cuba in North Carolina. Pantomime performance on production. Eccentric studio owner: Earl Owensby. Starred in his own films, only shown in the Carolinas. A mad but enjoyable experience. "", on retired IRA man, shooting in . Accent problems on production. Editing problems. Libel actions all round. How he developed "". (46 mins) End of Side 9. U More on "Black Rainbow". Shot in North Carolina. A joyful experience. Goldcrest very good. The changing face of Charlotte NC. Appalling press release. "Messages in bottles". Launched on film festival circuit. Latest film "Croupier", written by Paul Mayersberg. Overtones of Pirandello. Loss or presence when films shown on TV. Reviews his career. How film making has changed. Lacked a real producer. The changing generations. (39'10")

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M I K E H O D G E S :

1959 Wrote SOME WILL CRY MURDER

1960 SUNDAY BREAK - producer/director.

1962 Devised and co-wrote RAVE

1963 WORLD IN ACTION - producer/director. [Granada's current affairs programme.]

Subjects: Funerals (The English Way of Death) Radio Pirate Ships Goldwater (1964 US Presidential Candidate) The Car Unions (UK versus US) The Flip Side (Pop Music Expose) Vietnam 1964 John Bloom Seven Up (Edited version) The O'Rahilly File (Portrait of an Anarchist)

1965 TEMPO - producer/director. [ABC's arts programme.]

Subjects: The Knack (Richard Lester's film) Lee Strasberg in London The Dealers (Art Dealers Expose) The Successful Failure (Playwright John Whiting) Film Tides Profiles of Harold Pinter Jean-Luc Goddard Michael Tippett Alain Robbe-Grillet Orson Welles Andres Courreges Charles Fames Oldham Repertory Company Tale of Two Talents (Tom Jones & Lyn Seymour) Tale of Two Comedians (Dick Gregory & Ted Ray) Don't Let the Wig Fool You, Mate (Danny La Rue) Meet The Duke (Ellington in Coventry Cathedral) In Cold Blood (Truman Capote) Tativille (Jacques Tati) Girodias Rides Again (Olympia Press) Blood, Sweat & Champagne (Paris Match) The Offenders (Private Eye, Canard Enchaine & Krokodil) It Happened in Paris (Happenings & Jean-Jacques Lebel) The Image Wizards David, Moffett & Omette (Omette Coleman in Paiis) The Pursuit of Nancy Mitford 1966 NEW TEMPO - producer/director [ABC's arts programme]

Subjects: Information Explosion Heroes Noise (with John Cage &, Roland Kirk) 2

Nostalgia Disposibility Violence Stimulants (with RD Laing) Leisure Reprise 1967 Devised, wrote & produced SOUND AND PICTURE CITY

Devised & wrote THE MARSHALL McLUHAN GOLDEN P R O B E S H O W

1968 Wrote, produced & directed SUSPECT. [First filmed drama for ABC that eventually led to formation of Euston Films. Original title: DADDY.]

1969 Wrote, produced & directed RUMOUR.

1970 Wrote & directed GET CARTER. [Feature film starring Michael Caine, and John Osbo me. Original tide: CARTER'S THE NAME ]

1971 Wrote & directed THE MANIPULATORS.

1972 Wrote & directed PULP. [Feature film starring Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander, and Lizbeth Scott. Original tide: MEMOIRS OF A GHOST WRITER.]

1974 Co-wrote FLASHMAN [Adaption of script by Charles Wood.] 1974 Wrote, produced & directed THE TERMINAL MAN. [Feature film starring , Joan Hackett & Jill Clayburg. Based on a novel by Michael Crichton.]

1975 Wrote MID-ATLANTIC [First, second and third drafts.]

1976 Wrote THE CHILEAN CLUB.

1977 Wrote SPARE PARTS.

1978 Co-wrote DAMIEN: OMEN II [Withdrew as director after disagreement with producer.]

Wrote BLOOD AND THUNDER [First and second drafts.] Wrote SAY GOODNIGHT LILIAN, GOODNIGHT

1979 Directed FLASH GORDON. [Dino di Laurentiis feature film starring Max Von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Omella Muti, & Topol.]

1982 Wrote & directed MISSING PIECES. [CBS film starring Elizabeth Montgomery. Original tide: A PRIVATE INVESTIGATION] 3

1983 Wrote A MAN WITH TWO HATS. [Adaptation of Arnold Bennett novel, BURIED ALIVE] 1984 Directed SQUARING THE CIRCLE. [Tv film written by Tom Stoppard.]

Re-wrote BURIED ALIVE [A verv different version from the above.] 1985 Federico Fellini's AND THE SHIP SAILS ON - [directed dub of English version.] Wrote stage play SOFT SHOE SHUFFLE. [Performed at Lyric Theatre.]

1986 Re-wrote MID-ATLANTIC [EMI planned to make it in a two-picture deal with ILLEGAL ALIENS.]

Directed WOOD [Home Box Office film starring Gary Busey and Geraldine Page.]

Directed MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE [Feature film starring and written by Mel Smith & Griff Rhys Jones. Original tide; ILLEGAL ALIENS]

Wrote OUT OF SIGHT

Wrote A CUCKOO'S CHILD

1987 Directed FLORIDA STRAITS. [Home Box Office film starring Raoul Juha & Fred Ward. Re-cut and music re-scored without consultation.]

1988 Wrote MIDNIGHT SHAKES THE MEMORY [First and second drafts,]

Directed A PRAYER FOR THE DYING. [Feature film starring , Bob Hoskins, & Alan Bates. Re-cut and music re-scored without consultation.]

1991 Wrote and directed BLACK RAINBOW. [Feature film starring Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards, & Tom Hulce.] Adapted MIDNIGHT SHAKES THE MEMORY as a stage play.

Co-wrote TIGER RAG [Adaption of script by Michael Thomas.]

Wrote WARRIORS IN EDEN

Co-wrote MAIDEN [Adaption of script by Jack Rosenthal]

1992 Wrote DEAD MEN TALK

1993 Directed DANDELION DEAD. [LWT film starring Michael Kitchen, Sarah Miles, & David Thewlis.] 4

1994 Directed THE HEALER. [BBC film starring Paul Rhys, Julie Covington, &, Nicky Hanson] 1995 Wrote stage play SECURITY

Re-wrote GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN [Original title: MID-ATLANTIC]

1996 Wrote ACID CASUALS

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