622:, but added: 'We didn't know what Method Acting was, we just called it 'getting on with it'." Syms said that during the scene where the ambulance rolls backwards down the hill narrowly avoiding her, the actors assumed there would be a hawser to stop the vehicle if anything went wrong, but there was not. The actress said she was "pretty sure" Mills, Quayle and Andrews angrily upbraided director J. Lee Thompson for this risky approach. She added: "He liked to push actors a bit". The quicksand sequence was filmed in an ice cold artificial bog in an English studio (some scenes were shot at
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Alexandria, Anson delivers everyone's papers except van der Poel'snto the Military Police check point and (off-screen) reports to the MP's senior
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Elstree. Real lager had to be used to "look right", and Mills had to drink numerous
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simply lifted the segment in which Mills contemplates the freshly poured lager in the clearly
Carlsberg-branded glass, before downing it in one go and declaring, "Worth waiting for!" This was followed by a variation in the usual Carlsberg tagline: "Still probably the best lager in the world."
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officer, Captain van der Poel, who carries a large pack, to which he seems very attached. After the South
African shows Anson two bottles of gin in his backpack, van der Poel persuades Anson to let him join their drive to the safety of the British lines in Alexandria.
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officer arrives to arrest van der Poel. Anson orders him to wait until the time previously agreed. Having become friends with van der Poel and indebted to him for saving the group's lives, Anson tells him that if he gives his real name he will be treated as a
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Mycroft.
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was chosen because they could never have been seen to be drinking a German lager, since the United
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1362:Newark, Tim (2016).
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