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scifirenegadeAs previously mentioned, I mucked around a British newspaper archive (and occasionally Google News), finding stuff about you-know-who. Here's a clipping I found nice (and upsetting)
This one is here for two reasons
1. In the 2018 Talking Pictures interview, Russell recalls how he got the role as Lancelot, and it appears he implies that he was auditioning for The Buccaneers. Here, he says he was auditioning for a show about a highwayman.
1.a. I love Mr Russell, but he sometimes mixes stuff up (see his Myth Makers; he says he was in Trouble in the Store with Norman Wisdom, when he was actually in One Good Turn). Until abother person who worked on Lancelot, or The Buccaneers, or even the unknown highwayman show, we'll never know for certain.
1.b. What the hell is that highwayman show??
2. I am saddened by the fact that, if an actor does more theatre than TV, people outright assume they dropped the face of the Earth. Also he did do Harriet's Back in Town not to long before this.
Fun fact about What the Butler Saw: it's a sex comedy basically. So, not only I'm not able to see him in "the most provocative film" of 1953 Intimate Relations (the BFI did a screening of it in April, but geographical differences got in the way) and in Young Rennie (the famous scene where he gets out of a pile of hay with a girl after doing the deed), now this? I just want to see him in weird situations I guess.
You can find a transcription on my Tumblr blog, because I'm feeling lazy.
This one is here for two reasons
1. In the 2018 Talking Pictures interview, Russell recalls how he got the role as Lancelot, and it appears he implies that he was auditioning for The Buccaneers. Here, he says he was auditioning for a show about a highwayman.
1.a. I love Mr Russell, but he sometimes mixes stuff up (see his Myth Makers; he says he was in Trouble in the Store with Norman Wisdom, when he was actually in One Good Turn). Until abother person who worked on Lancelot, or The Buccaneers, or even the unknown highwayman show, we'll never know for certain.
1.b. What the hell is that highwayman show??
2. I am saddened by the fact that, if an actor does more theatre than TV, people outright assume they dropped the face of the Earth. Also he did do Harriet's Back in Town not to long before this.
Fun fact about What the Butler Saw: it's a sex comedy basically. So, not only I'm not able to see him in "the most provocative film" of 1953 Intimate Relations (the BFI did a screening of it in April, but geographical differences got in the way) and in Young Rennie (the famous scene where he gets out of a pile of hay with a girl after doing the deed), now this? I just want to see him in weird situations I guess.
You can find a transcription on my Tumblr blog, because I'm feeling lazy.
