Lewis Gilbert

Number six, To Sir With Love, directed by James Clavel.

Number seven, You Only Live Twice, directed by Lewis Gilbert.

Number eight, thoroughly modern.

Quit talking and start mixing.

Yeah, it allows him to give, well, it allows both perspectives.

C.S. Forrester as the writer and Lewis Gilbert as the director to give so much more of that rapid context on what's going on and to get across that the hunt for Bismarck the British hunt for and the events that happen around it involved all these different ships so what you'd often normally do and we see this in Red October and we see this in later films and if you think of Greyhound the recent one which didn't C.S. Forrester write the novel for that well it's based off of a C.S. Forrester novel as well originally but is that in most of those there's a point in cinema where you realize actually what you need to do is you make the need to make the ship a character so the ship has to almost be a character in its own like the enterprise like the enterprise there is only one ship that's a character in this film and that's bismarck herself everything else is always if you think about it everything else well the british action everything else is centered around people they're using ships they're using planes as equipment but bismarck is the only ship that's really given her own personality so to speak

I'd agree to that.

But I also really like Rodney.

But in

other ways, it must have been very sort of moving or difficult to handle.

Lewis Gilbert, the director of this.

He did a lot of Bond films.

You had the space thing that smacked of You Only Live Twice.

The, this is the, it's, I, I think it's no coincidence this is the third of three movies directed by Lewis Gilbert, and so many of the things that happen in this film [laughs] and so many of the things that happen with the villain's plot smack of You Only Live Twice and of The Spy Who Loved Me.

And but it's, a- and I, it's taken to the next level.

Like, if they had just stopped a few of the scenes and just moved on, I think this would've been a better film.

But this is probably the last big Bond We have seen, or we will see in the series-

Until Moonraker

... until, uh, Lewis Gilbert returns.

Yeah.

We'll get somebody completely different to do it, which they did.

A bit annoying at the time, but then I went back and did Moonraker with the lovely Lewis Gilbert, who I did a number of films with.

And, you know, we then got on to Octopussy.

And I'd already started doing quite a lot of model work.