It was a very happy picture. I had a house on the other side of the lake and Ann came out with my four daughters, Claire, Helen, Jo... Jo and Kate and we enjoyed some time on the lake. Of course I was working six days a week but it was lovely to have them there and... I've always enjoyed when they've been able to come and be with me for a while on location. It was such a happy picture and of course it was a success, it was a huge commercial success, but it wasn't such a success for Lew Grade because he'd financed the picture. And this was the third picture I'd done with him and he'd made a lot of really big budget pictures, not very many winners. And just before we got the end of shooting On Golden Pond he released a film called Raise the Titanic and it was a complete disaster. As a result of that, he had to sell his distribution company. I think it was called General Distributors. So when On Golden Pond came out, although he'd produced the film, he didn't have his distribution company anymore. Universal released the picture and I think they take a third of the profit, so he lost all that revenue. From a picture that was... I think that and The Pink Panther were the most successful films that Lew Grade ever made. And, I recently did a commentary for the DVD which was... which was nice, in which I talk about some of these things that I've been saying to you.
