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
					     					 			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
 &nbs 
					     					 			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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