In Which We Serve was a British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and Noël Coward, and inspired by the sinking of Kelly.

David Lean was also rapidly becoming a force in world cinema with Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger would experience the best of their creative partnership with films like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.

David Lean also admitted he was deeply indebted to Ingram, and MGM studio chief Dore Schary once listed the top creative people in Hollywood as D. W. Griffith, Ingram, Cecil B. DeMille, and Erich von Stroheim ( in declining order of importance ).

The name was associated originally with a society of Oxford University's University College, initiated by the then undergraduate Edward Tangye Lean circa 1931, for the purpose of reading aloud unfinished compositions.

When Lean left Oxford during 1933, the society ended, and its name was transferred by Tolkien and Lewis to their group at Magdalen College.

It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson.

Alec Guinness had previously played Lawrence in the play Ross, and was briefly considered for the part, but David Lean and Sam Spiegel thought him too old.

Lean had seen O ' Toole in The Day They Robbed the Bank of England and was bowled over by his screen test, proclaiming " This is Lawrence!

Faisal was originally to be portrayed by Laurence Olivier ; Guinness, who performed in other David Lean films, got the part when Olivier dropped out.

Sam Spiegel pushed Lean to cast Cary Grant or Laurence Olivier ( who was engaged at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and declined ).

Alec Guinness recounted that Hawkins was reprimanded by Lean for celebrating the end of a day's filming with an impromptu dance.

Lean considered Rains one of his favourite actors and was happy to work with him again.

O ' Brien filmed the Jerusalem scene, and ( according to Omar Sharif ) Bentley's political discussion with Ali, but he became ill due to a heart attack on location and had to be replaced at the last moment by Kennedy, who was recommended to Lean by Anthony Quinn.

A well-known English actor often playing supporting roles in British war films, Gwillim was recommended to Lean for the film by close friend Anthony Quayle.

( Lean argued that Brighton was " the only honourable character " in the film, whereas Anthony Quayle referred to his character as an " idiot ".

( In fairness to Lean and his writers, the Deraa connection was made by several Lawrence biographers, including Edward Robinson ( Lawrence the Rebel ) and Anthony Nutting ( The Man and the Motive ) before the film's release.

For a time, Lean was interested in a biopic of Gandhi, with Alec Guinness to play the title role and Emeric Pressburger writing the screenplay, but Lean eventually lost interest in the project.

However, Lean was dissatisfied with Wilson's work, primarily because his treatment had a clear focus on the historical and political aspects of the Arab Revolt.

The Tafas massacre was filmed in Ouarzazate, Morocco, with Moroccan army troops substituting for the Turkish army ; however, Lean was unable to film as much as he wanted because the soldiers were uncooperative and impatient.

( It was a straight-bladed weapon by the events of " Lean Times in Lankhmar ".

Candy was in the audience for the American Film Institute's tribute to David Lean, director of Bridge on the River Kwai.

Sir David Lean, CBE ( 25 March 190816 April 1991 ) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ),

Acclaimed by directors including Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick ,, Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound " Directors ' Top Directors " poll 2002.

Lean was also dissatisfied with Jones ' performance, and ultimately had him dubbed by Julian Holloway.

This was made clear by Ford's precipitous decline when the company was forced to finally introduce a follow-on to the Model T ( see Lean Dynamics ).

The river is chiefly known for its association with the Pierre Boulle novel and David Lean film The Bridge on the River Kwai, in which Australian, Dutch and British prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese to construct two parallel bridges spanning a river as part of the Burma Railway, also called the Railway of Death, for the many lives lost in its construction.

Lean project management combines principles from lean manufacturing with agile project management, to focus on delivering more value with less waste.

David Lean himself had been approached to direct a 1952 version for the Rank Organisation, but the project fell through.

Lean could not find financial backing for both films after Warner Bros. withdrew from the project ; he decided to combine it into one, and even looked at a seven-part TV series, before finally getting backing from Italian magnate Dino De Laurentiis.

Unfortunately for Lean, the project suffered a further setback when Bolt suffered a massive stroke and was unable to continue writing ; the director felt that Bolt's involvement would be crucial to the film's success.

Foremen are best understood as Project Managers who have come to that position after experience as a construction worker, as opposed to an individual who has followed a professional project management development program ( for example a Lean Six Sigma Certificate ).

" ( Lean dropped the project and was not involved in the eventual 1958 film version which starred Dirk Bogarde ).

She has also appeared in the short film Lay Down Lean, a project by the experimental filmmaking team The Belles Of The Black Diamond Field.

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Lean thinking has to be understood well by all members of a project, before implementing in a concrete, real-life situation.

John Krafcik, a researcher on the project, ascribed Lean to the collective techniques being used in Japanese automobile manufacturing ; it reflected the focus on waste in all its forms that was central to the Japanese approach.

At age 16, his father deserted the family when he ran off with another woman, and Lean would later follow a similar path after his own first marriage and child.

Bored by his work, Lean spent every evening in the cinema, and in 1927, after an aunt had advised him to find a job he enjoyed doing, he went to Gaumont Studios where his obvious enthusiasm earned him a month's trial without pay.

After this last film, Lean began his directing career, after editing more than two dozen features by 1942.

Although admirers would argue that Powell ought to rank alongside fellow British directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean, his career suffered a severe reversal after the release of the controversial psychological thriller film Peeping Tom, made in 1960 as a solo effort.

Lean meat is made into sausages while the entire slaughtered pig is sewed up after salt is added inside the body.

It was only in 1998, after the development of the ICM that Barry Boehm along with A Winsor Brown started to focus on reconciling it with the WinWin Spiral Model and its incarnation in MBASE and the follow-on Lean MBASE, and working towards an Incremental Commitment Model for Software ( ICMS ) by adapting the existing WinWin Spiral Model support tools.

; Hugh Thompson: ( Japanese: ヒューイ ・ リーン, Hyūi Lean, Huey Reane ) Hugh is the fifth member of Rolf's party after the investigation of the Biosystems Lab.

In April 1963, Media Securities, owned by Rupert Murdoch, acquired a controlling interest in the station ( his second television station after NWS-9 Adelaide ) and soon appointed a new general manager, Bill Lean.

Born September 20, 1928, in Buena Vista, Virginia, to Glen Edward and Vaughnye May Jennings, Gary Jennings attended little formal school after graduating from Eastside High School ( of Lean on Me fame ) in Paterson, New Jersey, and was mostly self-educated thereafter.

In January 2009 Dean released a fitness DVD entitled Letitia Dean's Lean Routine after she dropped from size 14 to size 10 on an intensive dieting and dancing regime.

Agile manufacturing is seen as the next step after Lean manufacturing in the evolution of production methodology.