Mackendrick remembered seeing audience members " curling up, crossing their arms and legs, recoiling from the screen in disgust ".

Hecht-Hill-Lancaster allowed Mackendrick to familiarize himself with New York City before shooting the movie.

Mackendrick shot the film in late 1956, and was scared the entire time because Hecht-Hill-Lancaster had a reputation for firing their directors for any or even no reason at all.

Merlin Productions soon proved to be a poor investment, so in 1946 Mackendrick joined Ealing Studios where he worked for nine years and directed three of the most famous films made at the studios including Whisky Galore!

Mackendrick suffered from severe emphysema for many years and as a result, was unable to go home to Europe during much of his time at the college.

* Mackendrick retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive

During his third year, Mackendrick suggested that Mangold should study at CalArts School of Theater as an actor alongside his regular film studies.

Mackendrick said, " So we cut the script there on the floor, with the actors, just cutting down lines, making them more spare – what Clifford would have done himself, really, had there been time ".

Mackendrick suggested Clifford Odets, the playwright whose reputation as a left-wing hero had been tarnished after he named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Powell and Pressburger (" The Archers ") and John Schlesinger had four films each while Alexander Mackendrick and Tony Richardson each had three.

He was born on 22 December 1912 and was the only child of Francis and Martha Mackendrick, who had emigrated to the United States from Glasgow in 1911.

Young Alexander Mackendrick had a very sad and lonely childhood.

Lancaster ’ s presence also made Mackendrick nervous.

Shooting on location in New York City also added to Mackendrick ’ s anxieties.

There is also a booklet featuring an essay by critic Gary Giddins, notes about the film and two short stories introducing its characters by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, and an excerpt about Clifford Odets from Mackendrick ’ s book On Film-making, introduced by the book ’ s editor, Paul Cronin.

While McKee's work might appear to be a fresh approach to story structure, many of the ideas he discusses have been around since Aristotle and notably appear in the work of William Archer, John Howard Lawson and Alexander Mackendrick.

Mackendrick assumed that Odets would need only two or three weeks to polish the script, but he took four months.

( 1950 ), directed by Rudolph Maté ; and Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), directed by Alexander Mackendrick.

** Alexander Mackendrick, British-American film director ( b. 1912 )

Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, it stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner and Katie Johnson.

J. H. Allen, Richard Reader Harris, Lawrence Graeme Allan Roberts, ‎ Edward Faraday Odlum, William Gordon Mackendrick, William Henry Fasken, Charles Marston, Elizabeth Oke Gordon, F. F. Bosworth, Alexander James Ferris, William Bond, Frank Sandford, Samuel Thornton, David Davidson, Errol Manners and Charles Fox Parham.

It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison and Martin Milner.

The screenplay was written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman and Mackendrick from the novelette by Lehman.

Faced with potential unemployment from the sale of Ealing Studios to the BBC in 1954, director Alexander Mackendrick began entertaining offers from Hollywood.

After the project collapsed during pre-production, Mackendrick asked to be released from his contract.

After scouting locations, Lehman was told by Hecht that distributor United Artists was having second thoughts about going with a first-time director, so Hecht offered the film to Mackendrick.

Mackendrick wanted to cast Hume Cronyn because he felt that Cronyn closely resembled Walter Winchell, the basis for the Hunsecker character in the novelette.

In Notes on Sweet Smell of Success, Mackendrick said, " One of the characteristic aspects of New York, particularly of the area between 42nd Street and 57th Street, is the neurotic energy of the crowded sidewalks.

The release includes new audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away, a 1986 documentary featuring interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others.

James Wong Howe: Cinematographer, a 1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe, a new video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler ( Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity ) about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, inspiration for the character J. J. Hunsecker, and a new video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentor.

" You don't think she would have remembered this from the first time ", ' We should consult Absolem " and " your majesty ".

" We had not got forty yards on our retreat ," remembered Captain Peter Drake, the Irish mercenary serving with the French – " when the words sauve qui peut went through the great part, if not the whole army, and put all to confusion "

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio remembered, " We never started and finished any one scene in any one day ".

We commemorate our comrades, living and dead, who fought here with bravery and honor, and we pray together that our sacrifices on Iwo Jima will always be remembered and never be repeated.

Their composition, " When the Kissing Stops " made it to the final eight, but although initially tempted, the group decided not to perform the number themselves (" We all agreed it would be better to be remembered as winners, and we couldn't bear to lose!

" We did four years with Mr. Allen and got one thousand dollars a week ," Gloria DeMarco remembered.

He is best remembered by his quotes " We ’ re screwed down for life " ( 117 ) and " You ’ ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

" We did not dare cross the threshold of the classroom with a half-ready performance ," one student remembered.

" Signed by more than sixty descendants during the fourth Hatfield-McCoy Festival, the truce was touted as a proclamation of peace, saying " We ask by God's grace and love that we be forever remembered as those that bound together the hearts of two families to form a family of freedom in America.

We all love Sir Henri, and we believe that his name will be remembered for the good work he has done as long as trees grow in this country.

He is still remembered by alumni as one of the University's truly great teachers, and is well known today for major works on the war in the Pacific, particularly At Dawn We Slept, The Untold Story Of Pearl Harbor.

Kannberg remembered expressing reluctance to sign to any label, but Drag City producer and session musician Rian Murphy recalled that " We asked, they said yes.

From this speech, the only thing which was remembered is when he said " We ( Hungarians ) have lost this war !".

In Germany, it is also remembered for the publication of " We had an abortion!

We were picky from the start ," remembered White.

It went platinum, and is best remembered for spawning the # 1 hits " We Built This City " and " Sara ".

Macaulay noted that Boswell could only give a detailed account of Johnson in his later years: " We know him, not as he was known to men of his own generation, but as he was known to men whose father he might have been " and that long after Johnson's own works had been forgotten, he would be remembered though Boswell's Life.

The Paul Masson brand is best remembered for its 1970s marketing association with Orson Welles, who promised for Masson: " We will sell no wine before its time.

As one diarist wrote: " We must observe and protect everything with a critical eye, draw sketches of everything that occurs ..." so that they would be remembered.

He was remembered for his contributions in a New York Times encomium by Frank Crohn, President of The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society: We mourn the loss of our long-time Trustee and faithful friend.

He is best remembered for his role as the grumpy father in the multi-Academy Awards nominated hit comedy film Merrily We Live ( 1938 ), the corrupt mayor in the comedy His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and as Mr. Honeywell in the television sitcom My Little Margie ( 1952 ).

" We thought, well, we'll put ourselves on the map here ," remembered Norman Fuchs, the mayor of Zap in 1969.

We only remembered it like a nightmare.