<< The behind the scenes stories sound fascinating -- where abouts did your interviews appear, Tom? <<

The Phipps and Douglas interviews both appeared in STARLOG. The Douglas one had a sidebar in which I talked to the FIVE crew member who got punched in the face and all cut-up by Oboler one day, when he (Oboler) went wild over an insult. (A different crew member started making fun of the talky movie they were making, and said it might win the Peabody Award for radio!) Phipps and Douglas are also in two of my McFarland compilations. My interview with Phipps, who loves to act gruff but is really an old pussycat, was in the early '90s, and he's been calling me several times a month since, just to chitchat, and still hasn't run out of stories. It was he who got Charles Laughton to consider Robert Mitchum for THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Laughton was thinking of Gary Cooper!). It was fun hearing Robert Osborne talking about Phipps after FIVE last night; I hope Phipps was watching.