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Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Film director best known for directing 'The Maltese Falcon'.
On the island
Eight records
Saint Louis BluesFavourite
I can't tell you when the first when it was the first time I heard the Saint Louis Blues, but it left an indelible impression on me.
The keepsakes
No book or luxury recorded for this episode.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:38You quit high school to become a boxer, and you did pretty well, didn't you?
I boxed while I was in high school. … [I] did quite well. Dreamt very briefly of becoming well-away champion.
Presenter asks
1:06Do you ever regret not having had a longer scholastic background going on to college?
I do that with mixed feelings. I didn't stop studying when I left school. In fact, I I went to an art school. And um uh encountered various important influences that serve to to shape my life.
Presenter asks
2:48Was [The Maltese Falcon] given to you, or did you choose it?
No, I chose it. It had been made a couple of times, um but I'd never thought real justice had been done. And I took the book. a book written by a friend of mine. A great writer, I think, to this day, Deichel Hamlet, and simply edited the book. It was hardly a job of script writing, but rather one of editing.
Presenter asks
You directed your father in the treasure of the Sierra Madre. That must have been rewarding.
Yes, the the director has a uh has a way of becoming the father figure on the set, so our roles were rather reversed.
Presenter asks
6:29Do you think [hunting] can nowadays be defended for sport to go after whales or tiger vanishing species?
No longer. No, they must only be protected. That's in the past. Of course.
Presenter asks
6:48Since [Marilyn Monroe's] death there's been something of a smear campaign about how difficult she was... How did you find her?
Oh, not at all difficult. … The poor child had great difficulties within herself. The pressures of of her life were simply too much for one as frail as she was emotionally. … There was never any question about about that. Up to her. limits of her ability while she did everything in her power.
“I remember the sound of the horses' hooves on the cobbles at night. She used to take me for rides at night.”
“We even sang cowboy songs in the street. A friend of mine and I did. Of course we weren't allowed to work, of course. And we slept on the embankment and we used to elude the police and stay overnight in Hyde Park.”
“I don't think anybody can be paid too much money.”