Susannah York

Um, that's what he was, and that's what the character was, and it was very easy to care for him deeply, both in the, as the character, in the character, and, and in, and in real life.

Susannah York, um, stands out in this movie for a lot of reasons.

She was, um, she was a great mystery to me.

She was like from another planet, partly because she's English and partly because her technique was very different, and she kept herself, uh, kind of aloof.

[laughs] I didn't realize while we were doing it how powerful her performance was.

You know, it's like in Cat Ballou, none of us really realized because we weren't doing scenes very much with Lee Marvin or his horse.

We didn't realize until everything was put together and we saw what he was doing when we weren't around and went, "Wow." Well, that was true of Susannah York, too.

Sydney Guilaroff is, I think, the greatest, uh, master at hairstyles that Hollywood ever had.

I think she felt herself to be sort of ersatz Tennessee Williams.

I mean Alice, I don't mean, I don't mean Susannah York.

Uh, but there, there are over...

Th- the scarred woman, um, whose poetic sensibilities meet the brutality of the real world i- is not a new character, and it is one that we've seen Tennessee Williams deal with over and over and over and over.

Um, but you know, then I went on from that down to the south of Spain, um, on Lawrence of Arabia, um, and helped out, uh, my father, uh, then, you know, doing the train crash and everything.

Um, [clears throat] and, uh, I left school at 16 [clears throat] and went off to Malaya as my father's only assistant, um, on a film with, uh, William Holden, Capucine, Susannah York.

Um, and, um, we did a huge amount of effects looking back on it as my father and a 16-year-old boy.

Um, we did strafing runs.

Um, and, you know, we worked together really well.

Um, and, you know, it was only, um, a short while, was it before or after that? Battle was '68.

You know, I'd just, in fact, done my first film as a supervisor the year before, um, at the tender age of twenty-one, uh, called, uh, Duffy with James Coburn, James Mason, James Fox, Susannah York.

Um, we filmed down in Almería, and the main task I had to do was blow up a fifty-five-foot long real Spanish fishing boat and sink it in the Med.