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Eire and converted it to look like New Bedford of the last century. Houses had acquired new frontages. The harbour had been dredged. Four sailing vessels had been brought into the anchorage. New structures had been erected above the harbour. Nothing like it had happened since Gabriel Pascal took a pyramid to Egypt (for Caesar and Cleopatra). All this had been done to provide a reasonably authentic background for some of the early scenes in Moby Dick.
Now Youghal is not the sort of town that caters for film producers earning a basic £1,000 a week. Its hotels are not quite up to the standard of the Waldorf Astoria.
So Huston and the stars of the film — Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn — stayed sixty miles away, in Cork.
But Cork, too, lacked some of the necessities of life. When Huston arrived there he said he was prepared to put up with the hardship of living in Cork, in a temperance hotel, but he had to have a private bath. The management said that they were very sorry but there weren't any rooms with private baths.
"But I must have one," insisted Huston.
"We're sorry, sir," they said at the hotel, "we just haven't got any private baths."
"Well, in that case," said Huston, "it's time you had. I'll build one."
And Huston had a private bath installed.
Perhaps because of his experiences in Youghal Huston decided not to take any risks at the next stop — Fishguard in South Wales. There he acquired an old hotel with fifty-four rooms, had it completely reconditioned and furnished at a cost of £15,000 (and made sure that he would have his private bath) . But as filming in Youghal was behind schedule this hotel was standing empty, its staff of thirty with nothing to do, whilst they waited for the arrival of the film unit.
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