Voiceover & narration

And Sinatra phoning every day. Yeah, did Sinatra... - Phone Ava every day? Did he? - Yeah. Heavens to Murgatroyd. There's the lovely Jonathan Adams who was our original narrator. Brilliant. Yes. - Plays Dr. Scott in this movie. And Brian Thomson used to put in hidden detail in those things, so there would be stuff inside that file. There might have even been stuff in those files behind him there. In that it was relative, but nobody was ever going to see. No. Well, to me, Brian Thomson's set was astonishing. It was unbelievable, and I've just been to see he King and /... Mm-hmm. - ...and the set he's just done for that. I adored it. - Yes, good, is it? Mm-hmm. Pity about the... - Sumptuous. Nah, nah, nah. - What? I didn't say anything. Nothing. You didn't say a thing. - Never heard a dicky bird there. Yeah. What a charming person. He'll be remembered in my will, actually.

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And this was cut from a lot of the original versions. This song was cult. 2 Toftind the truth ? And we cut straight to the narrator's verse. He says to tell the truth and never lied. We cut Brad and Janet's verses in this song and went straight to the narrator's verse on the original movie. And it made no sense whatsoever. - I see. 'Cause we needed this. There was a very long intro that Richard Hartley had devised for this song. And I suggested they cut straight to Brad's verse. And they cut straight to the narrator's verse, which was cutting both Brad and Janet's verse, which was rather stupid because it's kind of nice to have these two verses. Make the whole thing tie up, the whole song tie up.

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Roger Moore

He was a larger-than-life character, Ricky di Portanova. He had wonderful voice. He would say: "I could never act, but I had a wonderful voice. I did voiceovers." And Sandra was a beautiful Texan lady. Sadly, they both died within a few weeks of one another. And not knowing that the other had died in the same house. Great tragedy.

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Roger Moore

Ricky was not born into wealth. He was a working actor. And as he said, you know, one who just did voiceovers. And then he came into an enormous amount of money. I'm not sure whether it was from his stepmother. But he was exceedingly wealthy and had two beautiful homes... ...and a home in Monaco. He was great fun to be with. He was also a friend of Cubby's... ...and a friend of Frank's.

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No. Lawrence Naismith portrays Sir Donald Munger. Naismith had appeared in two other films produced by Cubby Broccoli, The Black Knight and The Trials of Oscar Wilde. He is best remembered for his portrayals of Merlin the Magician in the 1967 film version of the hit musical Camelot and as Captain Smith in A Night to Remember about the sinking of the Titanic. Careful listeners will notice a repeated line of voiceover in this sequence. Sir Donald's line, which begins,

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Roizman was one of the premier DPs back in the day. And by the way, that actor who's bowing and scraping to the Japanese visitors is an actor named Christopher Murney, who is probably more famous for his voice than his face. He does a lot of voiceovers. Again, one of the things that's interesting about this set is it was built in Harlem at a place called Filmways Studios, which was a very well-known

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