The first film I made on the Continent was in the '70s. In fact, it was just before, it was in 1969. I made a very interesting film in Bavaria called Something for Everyone. Well, it had two titles, Something for Everyone it was called in Britain, and in Germany and elsewhere it was called Black Flowers for the Bride. And it's the... it's the... in fact, it's the film which features on the cover of my book, with me and Angela Lansbury. That was a very interesting shoot. The director was Hal Prince, the famous theatre impresario. And he hadn't made a film before, so by this time, some 20-odd years after Another Sky, I was able to help him much better than I was able to help Gavin Lambert on Another Sky. I'd learnt enough about decoupage and other things that were strictly the director's business, so I was able to help him a lot. And we got on extremely well.

And... It was made in the period when all the... the three major American television channels, CBS, ABC, and NBC, each had a fairly major movie subsidiaries, and that period was quite brief. But during that period I made several films under that kind of umbrella. And, the budgets were usually quite satisfactory. They weren't huge budgets, but they were totally satisfactory. And that film is unique, in my particular history, because I had four weeks of preparation, and that's absolutely unheard of. Usually I was lucky to get one week, and not always very satisfactory. You don't always see all the locations and there are hiccups. But in that case I had four weeks of preparation, which was like paradise. So we stayed, initially, in Munich and then we moved on to a location in Hohenschwangau, which is where mad King Ludwig had his fairy tale castle, that you often see in movies. And we used that castle. We shot on the top floor, which was quite a problem because it's on a mountain anyway and then you have to go... lead the cables up to the top of the castle. The co-owner of Arriflex, Mr. Arnold, was very impressed with that. He said, 'That man is an artist'... he said when he saw the result of that.