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Joan Collins in Land of the Pharaohs Credit: Getty In April 1954, a scorching day of slave labour was afoot, in a stone quarry near the unfinished Egyptian pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan, outside Giza. Many thousands of extras were needed to achieve one of the grandest location shots in Howard Hawks’s Land of the Pharaohs, which had just started production in an extreme state of unreadiness.  An uncharacteristically nervous Hawks hoped to put his best foot forward by getting at least one huge money shot in the can. To court favour, he sent the rushes post-haste to Jack Warner at Burbank, to sh...

The World is Not Enough: how Michael Apted wrenched Bond into a new, darker era The late director, who claimed ignorance of action films, gave Pierce Brosnan’s 007 fresh grit – and upended the ‘Bond girl’ mould forever 12 January 2021 • 12:00pm Michael Apted's brief for The World Is Not Enough was to 'beef up the stuff between the action sequences' Michael Apted once admitted that he was “scared s---less” going into his 1999 Bond film, The World is Not Enough. And the director, who died last week aged 79, was an unlikely choice to take on 007. He was best known for directing t...