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Spotligh
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to report on an epic...
QUARZAZATE (French Morocco). BRITAIN has sent 120 men with lights, cameras, sound equipment, and studio props nearly 2,000 miles to make a costume film in colour,. The journey: London to Casa- blanca, to Marrakesh over the Allas" Mountains, and into the desert....
Friday,
HE call sheet this morning says "500 camels ready har- nessed and enddled."
We are living in a Foreign Legion Fort at Wazazat (it's the best way to pronounce my date- line) which the Foreign Legion gave up about two years ago. And we are making a British picture for a Hollywood company with part
of the story set in China. Title: "The Black Rose.".
(snow-
The Atlas Mountains covered of course) are standing in for the Himalayas, and Marrakesh, the nearest town-a four-hour car drive through the mountains will become Cathay when they filni the sacking of a city there.
WELLES AND POWER
to
We
They're
No
But meanwhile the big worry is these camels. We have come 1,000 miles from England film camels, but it seems are now on the wrong side the Atlas Mountains.
Camels in these parts at all. We are having to Import them from 200 miles away, from the other side of
of the desert.
of on a road in Morocco
the
days of
Genghis Chan..
are only 35 camels in sald Henry Hath- away, the Hollywood "We guessed
director, due in tonight after a nine-day there'd be plenty trek. Simultaneously, there is around here. Ah, well! We've another news Bash. ALFONSO got everything else,"
BEDOYA has left for Holly- "Everything else" includes wood-his
part TYRONE POWER and JACK Bedoya the played the grinning Is finished. HAWKING, as 13th Century Mexican bandit in "Treasure English
adventurers, and OR of
of Sierra Madre," remember?) SON WELLES playing nhas created a Genghis Khan pari. And,
legend for him- as self round these parts. background for them, there are lows:- several thousand Arabs, hun- dreds of horses and focks sheep.
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As fol-
local product was too white and would have photographed the wrong colour.
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Director, Bluey Throw Final Showing To-day: 2.305.20-7.30 & 9.30 p.m.`. the baby to the dog."
. Twenty-five commels are here
tonight, brought in by Adjutant A Picture for everyone who has known the thrill, an embrace,
or the tingling delight of newly-awakened Love!
Charpentier, of Corps.
the
Camel
Wo, throw a party for him in the bar. We are so pleased wo even say we'll try a dance for tomorrow night.
o
Charpentier weeps. "I don't like leaving my camels," says. "Could I bring them the dance?"Sure."
to
He pauses a moment, and looks worried again, "But to morrow night," "sighs Charpen- Her "they may not want to dance....
Monday
LREADY ao me
people
around here have 1 new name for "The Black Hoso." They are calling it an "Eastern Western."
Welles is off to Mogador to- day,
ay. "I'm just as crazy as you are," he Bays. "I'm making Mogador represent Cyprus for 'Othello"
There is also more news of
our camela. Tho first lot which were rounded up were. wild. They took one look ol
the packs they must carry for
the picture
*
and ran.
*
HENRY HATHA-
WAY
comes
up. He is the man who is driving this
picture through. He Is hard, tough, works in the Cecil B. de Miilo tradition.
"But audiences arc bored with long battle scenes and broad canvas pictures in which the men taking part are forgot- ten," he says.
"With me it is the people in the Olm first. If audiences like
it they'll say: It ought to be good with all that money and effort spent on It. If they don't like it they will
will say: 'It is always the same with costume and quill-pen films."
.
"But, whatever happens, there'll be no story," he sighs. When the sand was laid
a "It's
always the same when all away again. dust storm came up and blew it you're doing an epic."
Sunday
After weeks they finally push- Iint in the desert is costing a
ed a telephone out to the camp.. One night at dinner-after in- conceivable delays-Hollywood came on the wire. The call was
IT is not an easy for Bedoya. He put down his
life, this.
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take
We fork, turned to the man on the get up at five a.m., phone, and said: "I can't and work through the call-I'm busy," until six in the evening. Tem- perature during most of the day-120 degrees. The natives stop work between 12 and four-but wo "mad dogs" work through-with just 30 minutes' break for lunch.
"SONG OF INDIA” At 11.30 A.M.right
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R. SON WELLES came
Into the comp to- night from his
We are doing a crowd scene villa overlooking the fort. "I've with. Tyrone Power and the got to get to Mogador by Mon- sheep this afternoon. Suddenly day to make my own film, an Arab shambles into the Othello'," he said.
middle of the flock, begins to Welles ostentailously despises
examine
is work again today. Shoot-
minimum of £2,500 a day.
Tyrone Power goes to walk the gauntiet for a seene this morning. Spikes are set up on both sides of ruined wall of a native Kasbah, the Arabs in Chinese costumes line up either side to drive Power along with sucks. This time they do understand
what is wanted. Power has to see the doctor at the end of the fake!
Another hold up. First a dog is barking, and “ruining sound." Then a baby starts to cry.. "Do somathing," yalis Hathaway. Assistant "All"right," says the
Atlantic Ederan
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pick up the animals and the heat. For his part in the film Notos From British Studios:
Interpreters (see picture) he wears a 30lb.
leather coat lined with
them.
mink
All a mistake, it appears. The down to his knees. He seems Arab knew nothing about in no hurry to take it off. films he thought it was a sheep At night he is planning his sale and wanted to buy....
own nims-not his next,
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-Director Hathaway stands on "Ulysses," which is to follow his rostrum in his "Foreign "Othello”—but a new one he Legion
cap shouting orders to has just thought of-three pic- his cast of thousands. The tures away. orders are translated into Eng-
The
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EORGE lish, then French, then Arabic, him working on all of them. "Of
COLE, the which is being produced by His own camera unit is with G
been and finally into the mountain
young man who went Tony Darnborough, has
transferred to Denham.. Dorn- dialects.
course, dim making is fantasy," to prison because of his pas- borough is also co-directing Tho The crowd (65. a day) look ho says. "When we look back sion for kites in Somerset Astonished Heart with Terenco happy, nod encouragingly when on this we shall probably find an instruction is given They that we were all slightly de-Maugham's Quartet, is now Fisher. don't understand a word.
NEWS
the
Saturday
our
lirious and our fleeting moments
of sanity were when the sun
mad."
Apart from the camels, the
on the right side of the law, playing Eric Portman's de-
touched us and made us a bit tective assistant in The YOUNG SUSAN STRANKS, who played Jean Simmons Spider And The Fly. Based
as a child in The Blue Lagoon, on a true story from the has, the part of Ann Todd's archives of the Paris Surete, small sister in Cineguild's the film stars Eric Portman, Madeleine, story of Madeleine Guy Rolfe and Nadia Gray, was tried for the murder of her .Smith, the Glasgow girl who young Rumanian discovery. lover in the. 1850's.
about
camels. sand is giving us trouble, too. At Twenty-five of them from Meknes we had to bring our French Camel Corps are own yellow, sand because the
Babu,, deniru, da laken prisoner: by: Turhan Boy, at @hunter, su Gail Runerii stands by Ill this "scene from the A Columbik, film Song Of India; now showing, at the Queen's,
Packed with, bxelling, wild animal.nortinn, tha Alda, dentrības/ thë kapeot of a hunting party on a village which, for years.
Lived. In harmony, with the the tror which prowi the'?
Pet surrounding fangle,
Aged 24, George has appeared
In a number of screen successes,
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