In Production - 1965

[Stephen Pickard]

[Stephen Pickard]

[Stephen Pickard]

[Stephen Pickard]

Below is the artwork by Howard Terpning that 20th Century Fox objected to:
(See the article above)

[Lynda]

Thanks Stephen, this brings back many memories, exactly the reason I enjoy this site.

[Stephen Pickard]

Thank you Lynda for your appreciation.

[Gerald Lovell]

I am greatly amused by Rotten to the Core being referred to as "Rotten to the Corps"!

[Stephen Pickard]

[RogerThornhill]

Stephen, thanks for posting all those, they are very interesting, especially when looking back at them and knowing how they fared. You have a real treasure trove there.

[wadey]

Tony Tenser lived in Southport

[John Hamilton]

Tony Tenser lived in Southport

In the mid-1960's, he was living in Kent. he moved to Southport when he retired from films in the 1970's

[Rick C]

Tony Tenser (ultimately) died right at the end of 2007.

Here's the BBC radio arts and entertainments summary for the Radio 4 obituary programme "Last Word" broadcast at the time:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/las...1Dec2007.shtml.

[Stephen Pickard]

[Stephen Pickard]

[m35541]

Stnaley Baker to co-star with George Peppard in Sands of the Kalahari (eventually made with Stuart Whitman).

I see Burt Lancaster is still toplined for Khartoum - he must have jumped ship very late on having been announced for the role for at least a year now.

[wadey]

How did "Primitive London" go on ?

[Stephen Pickard]

[Rick C]

Stnaley Baker to co-star with George Peppard in Sands of the Kalahari (eventually made with Stuart Whitman).

I see Burt Lancaster is still toplined for Khartoum - he must have jumped ship very late on having been announced for the role for at least a year now.

In Charlton Heston's diaries 1956-1976* he (Heston) writes on 2nd March 1965: " I listened to Julian Blaustein's pitch on 'Khartoum' in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel where he first gave the script to me two years ago". Those two years previously Heston also writes (on 15 July 1963) " I don't really want to be tied down to do another epic, even with a script as good as 'Khartoum'." Heston appears to have been the first(?) choice for the Gordon part then, with Burt Lancaster just acting as a marker until Heston's mind was made up or production had to go ahead at the time when it did or never.

Heston also refers to the variety of directors originally approached or considered. Guy Green, Bernard Wicki; and Carol Reed whom Heston claims to have personally badgered to accept the responsibility.

*Charlton Heston:The Journals(E.P. Dutton publ. N.Y.,1976)

[m35541]

Thanks for the info.

[Stephen Pickard]