True as a Turtle (1957)

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• Gedreht in: Pinewood Studios

True as a Turtle is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Wendy Toye and starring John Gregson, Cecil Parker, June Thorburn and Keith Michell. The screenplay was by John Coates, Jack Davies and Nicholas Phipps, based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Coates.

Production

John Coate's novel was published in 1955. The Daily Telegraph called it "witty".

Filming took place in July 1956 at Pinewood studios and on location. The England maritime location for shooting was mainly the River Hamble; the yacht club shown is the Royal Lymington Yacht Club.

Director Wendy Toye had been under contract to Alex Korda, and this transferred to the Rank Organisation after Korda's death. She disliked working at Rank. Toye said "Earl St John... was a dear man and very nice but you didn't feel he was the least bit involved artistically... in the film you were doing; and John Davis you felt was absolutely against whatever film you were doing. You didn’t feel there was the slightest bit of interest.

Toye said Peter de Serigny asked for her to work on True as a Turtle, admitting "I really don’t know why I was chosen... I always thought I had a certain flair for doing odd ball stuff, which is what I always wanted to do but I don’t think I had great opinion of myself as a film director. And I think I was just very thrilled to do what whatever I was given."

She recalled de Serigny as "very good to work with" but had a fight with John Davis "over one of the artists" in the film "because he wanted to get rid of her after the first week’s shooting. And I said no. And then James Archibald came on the scene and he was a remarkable man.. I was very lucky that he arrived just at that time."

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