Kidnapped 128
Kiel, Richard 133, 136
Kiev 176, 178
Kiliecrankie 127
King, Dennis 98
Kinnear, Roy 6, 8, 12–14, 82, 280
Kipling, Rudyard 68, 93, 249, 298, 300
Knox, John 128
Konigsberg, Frank 280
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang 40, 208, 293
Kosovo 89–93
Kray twins 142
Kristel, Sylvie 280
Kruschev, Nikita 314
Kwai bridge 315
La Dolce Vita 265
Lancaster, Burt xxiii, 38 & fn., 97, 103, 160, 162–174
Landis, John 113, 281
Langton, Simon 280
Laughton, Charles 140
Laurel, Stan 98, 294, 314
Lawrence, Stephen 222
Leacock, Stephen 97, 293
Lean, David 207, 208
Lee, Christopher 5–7, 9, 10, 12, 14–16, 56, 87, 168, 208, 280
Lees, Lt-Col R.G. 314–316
Legion of Frontiersmen 284, 288
Legrand, Michel 6, 39
Legree, Simon 213
Lemper, Ute 75
Lenin, V.I. 71, 178
Leningrad 176, 178, 179
Leningrad Music Hall 314
Leopard, The 172, 173
Lester, Mark 27, 29, 31–37, 40, 41
Lester, Richard 1–16, 57, 59, 60, 63, 64, 82, 83, 265, 281, 283, 307, 308
Lettow-Vorbeck, von 75
Liberal Democrats xviii, 51, 52
Lidice 77
Lincoln, Abraham 47, 68
Little Big Horn 307
Liverpool Echo 251
Lohengrin 313
Lombard, Carole 245
Lone Ranger, The 113, 278, 281
Longford, Lord 145
Longhurst, Henry 276
Lord Chancellor’s office 105, 106
Lord of the Rings, The 53
Loss, Joe 9
Louis XIV 69
Louis, Joe 98, 225
Loy, Myrna 245
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 235, 236, 245, 246
Maastricht Treaty 71
Macaulay, Lord 122, 205
McAuslan, Private 302, 303
Macbeth 297
McCullogh, Willie 124
MacDonalds, clan 128, 288
MacDonald, Donald (great-uncle) 302
MacDonald, George 53
MacDonald, Janet (grandmother) 125, 127, 288
McDowell, Malcolm 83, 208
MacGregor, Rob Roy 127
MacInnes, Angus 62
MacKay, Ian 254
McLaglen, Victor 294
MacLaine, Shirley 201
MacLehose, Christopher 305, 310
Macmillan Film Encyclopedia 55fn.
MacMillan, Maurice 94
MacNeill, Isabella (grandmother) 288
MacPherson, Lord 145, 215
McQueen, Steve xiii, xiv, xxiii, 58, 84, 85, 204, 207–211, 284
Magna Carta 74
Maibaum, Richard 237
Mainwaring, Captain 74, 75
Malaya 305
Mandelson, Peter 92
Man with the Golden Gun, The 15
Marks and Spencer 233
Marshall, E.G. 63
Marty 160fn., 162
Marvin, Lee 211
Marx, Mr 221
Mary Queen of Scots 290
Maskell, Dan 214, 276
Matter of Life and Death, A 59
Matthau, Walter 238
Matthews, Stanley 123, 274
Mayer, Louis B. 103, 245
Mazarin, Cardinal 12
Mee, Arthur 291, 292
Meerut 118
Memoirs of a Buccaneer 306
Mencken, H.L. 196, 197
Mendelssohn, Felix 294
Meredith, Burgess 227, 228
Mexico 194
Middleton, Guy 30
Miller, Alice Duer 197
Miller, Keith 272
Milligan, Spike 6, 9
Milosovic, Slobodan 90, 91 & fn.
Mr American 311
Mix, Tom 294
Molineaux, Tom 111, 112
Montaigne, Michel de 255
Montand, Yves 205
Montgomery, Bernard 181fn.
Moore, Roger 208, 211, 234, 235, 237
More, Thomas 128
Moscow 176, 177, 179, 313
Mugabe, Robert 159
Mount of Olives 303
Muggeridge, Malcolm 256
Muhammad Ali xxiii, 15, 57, 226
Mussolini, Benito 69, 294
Muti, Ornella 280
N.A.A.C.P. 214
Napoleon 69, 188
Narrow Margin, The 27
National Front 219
“Native Americans” 113, 116, 118, 119
Nelson, Horatio 188
Nero, Franco 131, 136–138
Never Say Never Again 244
New Labour xxi, 18, 52, 88–93, 114
Newbolt, Henry 294
Newman, David 55, 56, 60–62, 64, 65
Newman, Leslie 55, 56, 60–62, 64, 65
Newman, Paul 57, 138, 204, 236
New Yorker, The 111
New York Times 306
News of the World 255
Nielsen, Brigitte 269, 271
Nimoy, Leonard 313
Niven, David 201
No Orchids for Miss Blandish 97fn.
Noiret, Philippe 12
Norman, Barry 270
North, Lord xxiii, 88
Northern Ireland 23
Noyes, Alfred 294
Octopussy 84, 212, 235–245, 285
OTS Bangalore 300, 301
O’Halloran, Jack 56
Old Testament 115
Oliver! 27
Oliver Twist 112
Olivier, Laurence 140, 173
Olympic Games 157, 227
Omagh 18
Oradour 77
Orchard, Julian 31
Orient Express 308
Orwell, George xxi, 97fn.
Outcast of the Islands 55
Palestine 22, 303
Palestine Police 303
Palmerston, Lord 20 & fn.
Panama Canal 308
Parliament 19, 44–52, 66fn. (see also Westminster)
Parkinson, Michael (show) 82, 211
Parrish, Bob 97
Partick Thistle 313
Paterson, Bill 12, 13
Patriot, The 157
Peacock, Thomas Love 249
Peake, Mervyn 161
Peel, Robert 117
Peninsular Hotel 233
Penshurst Place 28
Perrine, Valerie 62
Petersen, Wolfgang 283
Phillips, Leslie 187
Pink Turtle cafe 221
Pinochet, Augusto 89, 92, 93
Pocohontas 157
political correctness (p. c.) xv, xviii, xxi, 24, 104–119, 151, 155, 181 & fn., 188, 214, 221, 222, 224, 292
Pope, Alexander 229fn.
Pope John Paul 116–118, 252
Pope Pius XI 117
Pope Pius XII 117
Powell, William 245
Power, Tyrone 168, 171fn.
Price, Vincent 308
Prince and the Pauper, The 26–43, 57, 84, 85fn., 199, 207
Prince Charles Edward 289, 292
Prince of Wales 244
Princess and Curdie, The 53
Princess and the Goblin, The 53
Princess Diana 115, 195, 244, 251
Prisoner of Zenda, The 268
proportional representation 51, 52
Proust, Marcel 97
Punch 20fn.
Puritanism 119
Puzo, Mario 56, 64
Pyrates, The 168, 311
Quartered Safe Out Here 300, 311
Queen Mother 8, 9
Quentin Durward 283
Quinn, Anthony 35, 201
Rabelais, Francois 283
race relations 213–229
Radio City Music Hall 42
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br /> Rae, Douglas 174, 199, 237
Raft, George 245
“Rapid Reaction Force” 193
Rathbone, Basil 168
Ravel, Maurice 208
Reade, Charles 318
Redford, Robert 57
Redgrave, Michael 140
Red Beret, The 31
Red Circle School 126
Red Sonja 27, 60, 264, 268–271
Reed, Carol 56fn.
Reed, Oliver xxiii, 6, 10, 12, 13, 27, 33–38, 40, 4 1, 81–87, 210
Reeve, Christopher 57, 62
Reform Club 20fn. Reith, Lord 295
Return of the Musketeers, The 11–16, 85, 87
Reyes, Ernie 269
Richard III 291
Rio Grande 307
Ritt, Martin 236
Robertson, Lord 108, 184
Robeson, Paul 225
Robin Hood 122
Robinson, Edward G. 245, 294
Rochester, comedian 225
Rodeo Drive 238
Roma 268
Roman Catholic Church 80, 112, 113, 116, 119
Rooney, Mickey 56, 173
Roosevelt, Theodore 113fn.
Roots 227
Rosenbloom, Maxie 57fn.
Royal Flash 11, 57, 83
Rubinstein, Helena 281
Ruman, Sig 75
Rumsfeld, Donald 20fn.
Runymede Trust 223
Russell, Lord John 117
Russell, Ken 83
Russia 88, 176–179, 193
Sabatini, Rafael 120, 293
Sabu 37, 225
Salkind, Alex xxiii, 3, 7, 11, 26, 27, 34, 35, 39, 57–79, 60, 63
Salkind, Bertha 9, 34
Salkind, Ilya 2, 6, 11, 34, 39, 42, 55, 57, 60, 63
Salome 140
Saltzkammergut 76, 307
Saltzman, Harry 244
Samarkand 176, 177, 179, 307
Sand Creek 118
Sanders, George 168
Sandhurst 189
Sanitsky, Larry 280
Savalas, Telly 198, 201
Savoy Operas, The 297
Sawyer, Tom 173
Schiller, Johann 75
Schopenhauer, Arthur 317
Schulberg, Budd 111
Schwarzenegger, Arnold xxii, 60, 264, 269, 270
Schygulla, Hannah 280
Scofield, Paul 173
Scotland xvi, 89, 120–129, 209, 215
Scotsman, The 251
Scott, C.P. 262
Scott, George C. 27, 35, 40, 41, 81, 87, 165, 201, 203
Scott, Walter 124, 250, 288, 318
Sea Hawk, The 208, 209
Second World War xvii, xix, 19
Selous, F.C. 284
Selznick, David O. 268
Separate Tables 162
Service, Robert 317
Shakespeare, William 122, 195, 196, 297, 318
Shankly, Bill 99–101, 121, 274 & fn.
Sharif, Omar 205, 206
Shaw, George Bernard 163, 249
Shaw, Robert 131, 133, 136–138, 141, 201
Sheridan, Ann 245
Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet, The 163
Siam Railway 315
Sierra Leone 92, 190
Sim, Alastair 83, 261
Sinatra, Frank 171
633 Squadron 201
Slaughter, Tod 32
slave trade 114, 117, 118, 227
Slim, William 21, 97, 98, 181fn.
Smith, Chris 109
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 148
Somers, Will 31
Soo, Frank 224
Sopron 33, 36
Soylent Green 27
Spain 18
Spector, Maud 201
Spengler, Pierre 6, 11–14, 27, 34–36, 39, 55, 57, 63, 64, 86
Spielberg, Steven 182
Springer, Jerry 79
sport 272–277
Squire Western 122
Stalin, Josef 69, 92
Stamp, Terence 56
Stark, Graham 29, 31
Starlight Roof 313
Star Wars 138
Steel Bonnets, The 101, 307
Steiger, Rod 201
Stephenson, Pamela 86
Stevenson, R.L. 96, 288, 308
Stewart, Andy 314
Stewart, James 173
Stilwell, Joseph 236
Sting, The 138
Sting II 84
Straw, Jack 222, 224
Suez Canal 308
Suez campaign 21
Sullivan, John L. 57fn.
Sun, newspaper 255
Superman films xxiii, 3, 11, 55, 57–65, 131, 132
Surtees, R.S. 24
Swaffer, Hannen 254
Sweet Smell of Success 162
Sword of Honour 261fn.
Synthetic Men of Mars 97
Tahiti 308
Taipan 58, 84, 199–212, 235, 278, 283
Tale of Two Cities, A 268
Taliban 17, 20
Tanglewood Tales 293
Tarzan of the Apes 97fn., 297
Tashkent 176–179
Taylor, Robert 283
Tchaikowsky, Piotr 294
Teal, Ray 28
television xvii, 255–262, 274, 278 10
Rillington Place 27 1066
And All That 293
Thalberg, Irving 245
Thatcher, Margaret 45
Thief of Bagdad, The 37
Third Man, The 56fn.
Thirty Years War 75
Thomson, D.C. 249
Three Musketeers, The 1–11, 81, 166, 266
Time, magazine 8, 11
Times, The 250
Tito, Josip Broz 131
Todd, Bob 5, 83
Tolkein, J.R.R. 53, 54
Tom Brown’s Schooldays 154fn., 298, 305
Tora! Tora! Tora! 27
Toronto 313
To Sir, With Love 201
Tourist Trophy (T.T.) xiii, xiv, 242, 243
Tracy, Spencer 245
Train, The 173
Trajan 194
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The 305
Trinity College, Dublin 307
Trollope, Anthony 24, 250, 318
Twain, Mark 26, 27, 42
20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea 27, 264, 265–268, 283
Twenty Years After 11–16
Tynan, Kenneth 258
Unknown Soldier, The 68
United States 18–22, 73, 194–197
unproduced screenplays 278–285
Unquiet Grave, The 318
Updike, John 177
Ustinov, Peter 205, 206
Valdez is Coming 173
Veidt, Conrad 75
Verne, Jules 266
Venice 308
Venice Boulevard 240
Vera Cruz 162
Vikings, The 27
Vuille, Georges-Alain 198, 199, 201, 203–208, 210, 211
Vuille, John 205, 206
Wagner, Richard 75
Wakibi 216
Walcott, Jersey Joe 57fn.
Wales 89
Walker, Tommy 274
Wallace, William 68
Ward, Lalla 35, 40–42
Ward, Simon 6, 9
Ward, Sophie 280
Washington, George 68
Waterloo Cup 24
Waugh, Evelyn 261fn.
Wayne, John 14, 184
Weathers, Carl 131, 136, 137
“Wee Wullie” 314–317
Weill, Kurt 75
Welch, Raquel 6, 9, 27, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41
Wessex, Countess of 251
West, Mae 188
West, Timothy 236
Western Mail 251
West Point 189
Westminster xvi, 44–49, 51, 52, 120, 123fn., 149 (see also Parliament)
Wheatley, Dennis 22
Wilder, Billy 3
Williams, Charlie 222
Wilson, Angus 310
Wilson, A.N. 74–79
Wilson, Michael G. 237, 238
Windward Passage 308
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p; Wizard of Oz, The 101, 103
Wodehouse, P.G. 51, 97, 287, 310
Wolf of Kabul 97 & fn., 126
Women in Love 83
Wood, Natalie 182fn.
Wooll, Nigel 32, 36
World Cup 69
Worm Ouroboros, The 54
Wounded Knee 118
World Trade Centre 17
Worsthorne, Peregrine 248
Worth, B.J. 243, 244
Wyndham, Dennis 28
XIVth Army 22
Yates, Dornford 282
Yes, Minister 262
York, Archbishop of 106
York, Duke and Duchess of 15
York, Michael 6, 7, 9–12, 86, 168, 208
York, Susannah 63
Yorkshire Post 252
Yugoslavia 132, 133, 141
Zagreb 132, 141
Zhablak 130, 131, 133, 134
Zimbabwe 92
Zuleika Dobson 86
Zworykin, Alexander 262
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