“After Stanley had died, the Motion Picture Association in Hollywood decided to pay tribute to him, and I was invited also to make a small speech, and so on. And after the speech, Spielberg came up to me and said, ‘Ken, I want you to know that as far as I’m concerned, the war room is the best set that you have ever designed, and not only that, I think it’s the best set that ever has been designed.’ So, you know, I was very flattered, obviously, about it.” —Ken Adam, the man who designed for James Bond and Stanley Kubrick
More great stories from Ken Adam:
- How Dr No introduced me to Stanley Kubrick
- Meeting Kubrick
- Dr Strangelove: driving Kubrick no faster than 30mph
- The real Peter Sellers
- The problem with Peter Sellers improvising dialogue
- Trying to keep a straight face around Peter Sellers
- Redesigning the Dr Strangelove war room
- The war room
- Kubrick’s skill for revealing the set
- Stories with Stanley Kubrick
- Dr Strangelove: the missing pie fight
- The true Stanley Kubrick
A Profile of Ken Adam tells the story of cinema’s best known production designer from his birth in Berlin, between the wars, to his escape to England after the rise of Hitler, his training as an architect, and his career as the Royal Air Force’s only German fighter pilot during World War 2. First broadcast in 1979, this is a fascinating portrait, with great archive and an excellent interview with Ken Adam.
Here’s the screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George, notes from the War Room by Terry Southern, Southern’s profile of Kubrick that Esquire squelched in the 1960s, an unpublished interview with Stanley, and more.
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