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awful lot and we made a script which we thought was suitable for kids, when I say kids I mean a younger audience. When Danny saw it of course he was appalled, he hadn't meant I could alter it, he meant I could alter it. He meant I could change a few commas. Now I was in a spot. If I know what I know now I would have said I'm sorry Danny, I can't do it. But having gone all through the dramas, and in those days if they wanted somebody to direct a film, they had to get the permission from the
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clsewhere is even more far-fetched in detail and predictable in development, while
Freddie Francis's direction lacks the necessary lift and confidence. This weakness of material and handling inclines George Chakiris to labour the pace, but Janette Scott and Alfred Lynch are touching as Irene and the naive Tom, and Athene Seyler enjoys herself greatly as the irrepressible, anti-Square, Aunt Phoebe. It is the cast, in fact, which enables the film to be indulgently enjoyed."
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Danischewsky whom I love asked me to do this film and I read it and I said I don't think the script is right for kids. He said you can change it. And he was serious about saying I could change it, but he didn't think I wanted to change it to the degree I wanted to. So Pam and I work on it an
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