Wheel of Fate

[Wee Sonny MacGregor]

Interesting little piece by Bryan Forbes in The Spectator recently:

"It was a strange feeling to be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Bafta last week, rather like a remake of A Matter of Life and Death in which I was permitted to return to Earth and witness my visual obituary. One of the film clips they unearthed showed me in a British B feature, the aptly named Wheel of Fate. It was while shooting the very last sequence on a wintry night in Marylebone shunting yards that I first glimpsed the young and delectable Miss Nanette Newman; and the rest is history, as they say. I doubt whether many people have tangible evidence pinpointing the moment when they fell in love, but there it was for me up on the screen, going through the camera gate at 60 frames a second. My grandchildren stared at the images unaware that they owed their existence to a casting director's arbitrary choice."