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Roy Boulting and Hayley Mills began a relationship during the shoot despite a 33-year age difference; they married in 1971. [29] [34] Roy wrote and directed Twisted Nerve (1968), a thriller starring Mills and Hywel Bennett. The brothers had a massive hit with There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) starring Sellers and Goldie Hawn.
I'm All Right Jack is a 1959 British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting from a script by Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney based on the 1958 novel Private Life by Alan Hackney. [1]
He is best known for two of his novels, Private's Progress and Private Life, both of which were adapted into Boulting brothers films: the former as Private's Progress (1956); and the latter as I'm All Right Jack (1959). Hackney also co-wrote the script of I'm All Right Jack, which was a satire of trade unions. [3]
In July 1963, it was announced that David Susskind would make a film of the play as a co-production with the Boulting brothers, with John producing and Roy directing. Roy Boulting was writing a script with Naughton and Susskind and was hopeful that Peter Sellers, who had made several films with the Boultings, would play the father. [13]
Seagulls Over Sorrento is a 1954 British war drama film made by the Boulting brothers based on the play of the same name by Hugh Hastings. The film stars Gene Kelly and was one of three made by Kelly in Europe over an 18-month period to make use of frozen MGM funds. The cast features John Justin, Bernard Lee and Jeff Richards.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "For once, the familiar Boulting Brothers' formula of uninhibited contemporary satire has placed itself in an extremely invidious position. Jokes about colonial administration, U.N. efforts to quell local revolutions, and American and Russian spheres of influence, have uncomfortable topical parallels; even if ...
The Guinea Pig is a 1948 British film directed and produced by the Boulting brothers, known as The Outsider in the United States. The film is adapted from the 1946 play of the same name by Warren Chetham-Strode .
Cotes was born as Sydney Boulting [2] in Maidenhead, Berkshire. [3] His brothers John and Roy Boulting became noted film makers. [2] He began as an actor, before concentrating on theatre production. [4] He was the original director of the world's longest-running production The Mousetrap, still playing at the St Martins Theatre, London. [5]