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  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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