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Inspector Nick Kendall arrives after the bar has been wrecked while Curt Jurgens points out the damage.

LAST DAY'S SHOOTING OF FERRY TO HONGKONG

THE BIG BAR BRAWL ON FRIDAY THE 13TH

ON Friday the thir-

teenth of February, I walked onto the set of the J. Arthur Rank Studio at Deepwater

Bay.

The time was 8 a.m., a muggy morning with tempers and tem- perature rising high, a wonderful beginning för trouble, and good story,

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Up to the thirteenth every- thing had gone well, too well in fact, "Ferry to Hongkong" was right up to schedule. In Lon- don they said it was impossible, in Hongkong they achieved the impossible.

Salubrious

However, Friday the 13th should prove to be the day when o went wrong

So confident was Lewis Gil- beri, J. Arthur Rank's director, that he had wired London to have the chartered plane at Kal Tak, at 8 a.m. Monday morning! My expectation that there. would be trouble was In- creased when I heard that the remaining scene to be taken was the rough house, supposed to lako part In one of the more Kalubrious bars of Mongkong.

Standing by were two score British soldiers. They were dressed in a variety of costumes ranging from Teddy Boy, through British sailor,. to U.S. sailor.

Now Curt Jurgens, assumed to have spent the last few months sailing between Hongkong and Macao is in a pasty temper,

Lewis Gilbert sald: "Let us unaware of what he had said,

We make it good this time.

was looking at the script. don't want to have to do it again." He sat down com-

He throws the camera be- fortably be an caer chair. The hind the bar: punches the fight had tired him somewhat, photographer

the bar; over the reporter flat on

knocks his back. This starts the mugh house, with the soldiers standing by to do the actual lighting.

I licked my lips; there shodid

be at least one fatul accident,

Ho ted band

his hand.

The

He surveyed his battlefield.

in the jaw at this angle, no red, you just take the punch need to go over the bor this

"Curt, as you go out a boitie smashes the mirror da you pass Cron."

began to play. "Action" time." Onco more Curt Jurgens alugged Ted.

wicked punch this time. Ted went out of sight and I heard him hit the floor the other side of the bar. The soldiers, feeling

by JOHN LUFF

two Scricua accidents, and half a dozen broken limbs.

On the stage the four plece- band broke into "The Happy Polka," and Lewis Gilbert sat quJelly in an

easy chair and surveyed his actors. Satified, he called "action" and all hell was let loose,

Over The Bar

The photgrapher, stunt man Ted Bushell, went flying over

honour was at stake, acquitted themselves like men.

All manner of private fights had broken out. Оле came perilously near our way. Sylvla Syms watched anxiously. This private feud was not in the script. Ono soldier coiled the other

nasty word a very (also not in the script).

"Digger_(the_props man) you' throw a bottle of deer and

mash it on the dragon sign.”

"We'll take vou sir chops, You fight it out here in front of the steps.

Now this did worry Curt Jurgens, Friday the 13 and a mirror to be smashed just. over his head,

I called in China Mail. 1 told them to stand by, be- cause if ever there wa8 10- ing to be a «lory, this was it,

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The band brake into the live- There was a hasty tackle and Sylvia Syms had the

Crash weat stcol ly air. "Action." knoticed from under her She Ted, but this time he took the went dying, picked herself up, count comfortably on top of the The bar. SM,

the bar from a beautiful right and ran off the hook from Curt Jurgens. The whistle blew, but some of punch waim't held, and poor inds had private seofes

suttle. Ted iny taking the count

Out on the floor a real fight had broken out, One soldier and had not pulled his punch his mate had a split lip.

It got fast and furlous. The girls screamed, and ran off. It their

was so real that it seemed as if the police would walk in at any moment.

Scated at the table were ก Noel of Chinese girls. So pro- icient were the latter i roles, that one felt that they had attended the Method School of Acting. They understood very little English, but they knew Just what to do when trouble broke out in a bar,

A Punch

the to

The fight went on. The chip- pic, the props man, the elec Arielen whistled on their fingers, But still the fight went on.

Lewis Gilbert looked on sadly. He turned to Ted, the stunt director. "Go in and try and stop It, Ted."

The whistle blow. The Ted, now somewhat recovered shouting and the tumult died. wandered over. "Break it up The weary and somewhat boys,"

bloodstained and dusty soldiers nursed their wounde while sitting on the floor,

So absorbed were they in the sadly. He said in a quiet calm Lowis Gilbert surveyed them character they had to assume pleasant voice: "I asked for a that some of them were unable Aght, not a love feast." to drop the role when they came of the hot.

This was the ration. Curl Jurgens and Sylvia Syms are sitting of a huge bar presided Cover by our ok friend the Cup-

tain from Maxime.

Swollen Eyes

Ted Bushell, the stunt man was now, coming round. The

Unheard Of

Sinash went a bottle of beer. Gloss few, and the brown bevr 'flowed all over the red and green dragon..

Curt Jurgens ran out of the bar a Orson Welles entered.

Crash went another bottle of beer just missing their heads and smashing a mirror inta

mithereens, `

Lewis Gilbert raised his hand enraptured orchestra like an conductor.

" Usink that's got it."

I waited for the wounded and

dying to be picked up, but everyone rose unaided.

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The small private fight broke story for the China Mali today. up. The podc dicentangled itself and moved our way. The However, had they not broken a mirror? Bad luck must fol- cause of it all led the way, What

law that, especially on Friday had. lovely eye he

the 13th. Bald Lewis Glibert: "That was good that time. We'll Just

But no. A few close ups: have a rest and then we'll-take few stills, and all was over.

a

it from this angle."

For a dlm director to say that

A photographer enters. Ho soldiers tried to focus their snaps Curt Jurgens, and a re-, swollen eyes. The frightened porter says; "This will get you girls come back chattering like unheard of. Rank's staff looked osto the ship for freedons.”

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Lewis Gilbert smiled happily. "That's "

the

Oraon Welle, quite Invited, commented 02 fight. There's never beet____ scrap like that on the krem.”

I walked down the ranks of the wounded. No make ballers bare. Awetten oyes, palled wulta bruised

lora

Lips knuckles.

spoke to the margèunt- major of the Green Howartig who groudly surveyed his boys.

A corporal whispered in my ear. “It should have been good, sir. They've bois FTRO» Halog down in the bars of, Wi- chak for weeks, knowing this was coming off,"

"nodded, knowingly.

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