Shoot the Rehearsal!: Behind the Scenes with Assistant Director Reggie Callow

Ridgeway (Reggie) Callow began his film career in the early 1930s and for four decades worked as an assistant director on some of the most memorable films in Hollywood history. In the early 1970s, over a period of several months, film historian Rudy Behlmer conducted interviews with Callow, and the result is this edited version of many hours of relatively informal conversations recorded between the two men.

In these extracts, Callow recounts what it was like to work on such celebrated films ...