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Оглавление‘THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE WALKER’
Walker has just announced he’s been called up. The members of the platoon, however, have other things on their minds.
FRAZER: This is terrible news, Joe, terrible! What about my whisky?
JONES: And my gin?
GODFREY: What about my sisters’ fudge?
PIKE: What about my mum’s elastic?
MAINWARING: Don’t be selfish, men. We mustn’t think about ourselves. By the way, what about my whisky?
Memories…
‘Jimmy Beck was my first choice to play Walker. Jimmy Perry wrote the part for himself but I didn’t want that to happen because although he was a very good actor and would have been fine in the part, I didn’t want an actor who’d written the show taking part. Firstly, everyone would think he’d written himself the best part and I wouldn’t have had his influence at rehearsals and during the recordings.
‘I’d worked with Jimmy Beck before, not in any big capacity, but his career was going great guns and he was obviously a very talented performer. He did a good job and gave a very funny interpretation.’
DAVID CROFT
