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12 THE CINEMA
wince and start again. We did think that Willis5 ironical remark ' Oh, we know what they'll say ! ' at the end of scene three, followed immediately by the Branch Secretary's ' Get back to work, boys ... That's the first thing' would get a good laugh. But it never did, as far as I am aware.
The success of the sequence depended largely upon casting. Niall McGinnis as Baxter, Patrick Troughton as Kettle, Kenneth More as Adam, Charley Wood as Willis, Jim Watts as Owen, Julian Mitchell as Morris, Geoffrey Kean as Bolger, and dear Hattie Jaques as the broad target for the penny none of these could have been bettered.
Extract from the Post-Production Script CHANCE OF A LIFETIME*
THE NEW MANAGEMENT HAS DIFFICULTIES
I Interior Fitting Shop. Day. Long Shot. Adam and the Shop Steward are talking with Baxter in one of the Oxy-welding cubicles. Riley, Sturt and one or two others are working in other cubicles. Baxter has his goggles up on his forehead. During tlie scene lightning-like flashes from the welding can be seen in the various cubicles. Baxter: Twelve bob short. Worked nearly twice as
hard as before ! Tearing our guts out ! ad am : Well everybody's in the same boat till they get into the run of it ...
* Producer: Bernard Miles for Pilgrim Pictures. Director: Bernard Miles. Associate Director: Alan Osbiston. Script: Walter Greenwood and Bernard Miles. Director of Photography: Eric Cross. Art Directors: Donald Russell, Joseph Hurley and Michael Stringer. Editor: Peter Price. Music: Noel Mewton-Wood. Leading Players: Basil Radford, Bernard Miles, Niall McGinnis, Julien Mitchell.