Short, twenty-minute interview with Sir Michael is very interesting:
1. Sidney J Furie hated the script and set alight to it.
2. Much of the humour was improvised.
3. Harry Selznick was very supportive. Gave Michael a big break with a seven year contact. As his popularity rose, he tore up that contract.
4. The studio wanted the scene with Michael cooking cut as they thought it made up seem gay. (Which is fairly ridiculous as he's seducing a woman at the same time.)
5. Michael could see Sean Connery being overtaken as Bond. He rightly assumed that the minute he took off Harry Palmer's glasses, he'd no longer be Harry Palmer.
6. German-Jewish cameraman Otto Heller stayed working in Germany until 1939. It took one of his crew to come in to work in an SS uniform for him to leave.
7. It was this film that made Michael famous.
8. Says he was at an early screening of Dr No with Saltzman and Broccoli, without music, and they were tearing their hair out. "Music makes all the difference."
Produced by Luciano Chelotti for 21st Century Films.
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