Word: balcon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie about the American Eagle Squadron. Laurence Olivier, back in England after a long spell in the U.S., is now at work on 49th Parallel, a thriller about the battle against the submarines. Ships with Wings is the title for a Fleet Air Arm production of Michael Balcon, the stormy producer who last year called Hollywood's British colony deserters for remaining...
...wrangling with the Board of Trade over a plan to insure British film production under war conditions. Through a film commission, the Board is arranging to guarantee supplies of materials, man power and studios, perhaps even establish a film bank to lend money for British productions. Gloomed Producer Balcon: "As a producer, I state most emphatically that unless a special Government department with strong powers is set up immediately to deal with these problems, British production is sunk...
...rest, the bigger & better part of Convoy, is the sea, and the deadly hide-and-seek of men and ships on it. Producer Michael Balcon and Director Pen Tennyson have given the picture a realism that makes even The Long Voyage Home look like a studio piece. This realism of the sea is shot through with the realism of sea war. Terror is in the form of ships, the shapes of guns and conning towers. It is in the fog which hides the pursued, but also hides the pursuer. It is under the dark, heaving water; and even...
...broke out year ago, the duty of the able-bodied members of Hollywood's British colony received plenty of attention. Some thought they should hurry home to enlist, as did handsome, mustachioed David Niven. Loudest blast of the debate came from London last week, where British Producer Michael Balcon snorted "deserters" at the "scores of producers, directors, writers, artists and technicians who have migrated to Hollywood and Manhattan since Munich." Next day came Hollywood's concrete answer: $6,-000,000 worth of British talent, including such performers as Madeleine Carroll, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton, Basil Rathbone...