Ending as King Nod screams "The golden balls are gone! My city will come to destruction and death!"
Have some sound and picture work left, but it's going well. I keep tinkering with it. Much like Richard Williams did. Heh.
Did something unusual for a Thief sequence during the Polo game. The sequence appears in the credits with text all over it. I decided to matte out the text from the middle of the image, and try to combine this better quality footage with the awful quality workprint. The results were quite good, I think. It took forever to do, and the very different quality of the sources made it hard to disguise (especially since my tape has a lot of dropouts during this one shot!) ... but eventually I was able, with a lot of work, to get the shot looking good.
Crazy, aren't I ...
I might post the entire first half, as a teaser. We'll see.
director: Richard Williams
producer: Richard Williams
Imogen Sutton
writers: Margaret French
Richard Williams
(and John Patrick Shanley)
ZigZag the Grand Vizier: Vincent Price
King Nod: Anthony Quayle
Princess YumYum: Hilary Pritchard
Chief Roofless: Windsor Davies
Mighty One Eye: Paul Matthews
Mad Holy Old Witch: Joan Sims
Dying Survivor: Clinton Sundberg
Phido the Vulture: Donald Pleasance
Tack the Cobbler: Sean Connery
Narrator: Felix Aylmer
Brigand: Joss Ackland
Goblet and Tickle: Kenneth Williams
Gopher and Slap: Stanley Baxter
Princess MeMe: Catherine Schell (scenes deleted)
Prince Bubba: Thick Wilson (scenes deleted)
Dwarf: George Melly
Hoof: Eddie Byrne
Hook: Thick Wilson
Goolie: Fred Shaw
Hoof: Eddie Byrne
Maiden from Mombassa: Miriam Margolyes
Other Brigands: Dermot Walsh
Declan Mulholland
Peter Clayton
Mike Nash
Derek Hinson
Ramsay Williams