The Archive · 1938

Rising Director

I dined recently with one of the young men who will amount to something one of these days when British film-making gets back on its feet.

John Paddy Carstairs (he likes his name to be unaccompanied by the fact that he is Nelson Keys5 son) has made four modest-priced films for Paramount down at Pinewood in the past year.

Now the only training for a film director is to direct films, and that is just what Carstairs and a hand-

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