Letter: Film memories
Hamlet was shot in black and white, which gave it a suitably moody atmosphere, while Henry V, after the opening scenes, blossomed into glorious colour. Each featured a very young, handsome Laurence Olivier in the title role.
Out-of-school excursions to arts events were rare and these films were superb. I expect our English teacher, Miss Foster, who years before had taught Muriel Spark, would have organised the tickets.
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Hide AdHowever, I don't think the photograph could have been taken in the 1940s, as we would have been only six or seven years old, even by the end of 1949. I think it must have been a bit later than that.
(MRS) DIANE DAY
Braidwood Steading
Penicuik, Midlothian
In In Our Time, it states that John Buchan, author of The Thirty Nine Steps, introduced the reader to Richard Hannay as he scrambled across the Forth Bridge and the Highlands to escape capture.
I am afraid there is no mention of the Forth Bridge or the Highlands in the book. Mr Buchan had Hannay enter Scotland by the south-west and he was chased all over Galloway.
It was Alfred Hitchcock who changed the route, and the location, when making his film.
RICHARD PAGE
Burnfoot Road
Hawick