He decided to go to Ireland, and within 24 hours I was in Ireland, and he treated the whole unit like it was Rommel in the desert. We all had to have our VWs, you know, my drawing board was fitted across the back of the VW, and looking for locations. Well, we had Irish locations and that made sense, but it didn't stay there. Then he wanted me to find the German locations in... in Ireland, the French locations, and I was going, and I was driving this bloody Volkswagen all over, with my cameras, and so on, and being chased by what I thought were cows, they were bulls, you know. But I'm not a country man. And then, Stanley was... I mean he was... he enjoyed it, in a way, but we really didn't know what we were shooting every next day, and he was also writing, rewriting pages, because he thought he could shoot Thackeray like it was written, and I told him, you know, I think... and he couldn't shoot Thackeray as it was written, so he was rewriting script pages and he never gave more than a couple of pages to everybody... he was looking around.

And... and also we did... you know, he was so... he remembered some of my photographs on a mountain track, the Comeragh Mountains, and he said, 'Ken, that was fantastic looking. We're going there tomorrow with the unit'. I said, 'Stanley, you know, it's a track, and when you get 40 vehicles or 30 vehicles going up that mountain track, if anything comes the other way we're in trouble'. He said, 'Who gives a shit. Let's do it'. And that was his attitude, you know, and in fact, what happened, we went up that mountain track and on the way back, you know, to... to turn around was a big problem. On the way back, suddenly the sky opened up, with a sort of Goya skyscape, or something. We got the German actor, whose name now escapes me… Harry. Harry Krüger. Yeah, Harry Krüger, out of his car, on to a horse, and we shot the scene there, and it... it is a fantastic looking scene, so you know, how could you argue?