Despite the fact that I live in Los Angeles and work in the movies, albeit in a rather minor position, I don't have a lot of photos from movie sets. This one is from Ryan's Daughter, directed by David Lean. Lean was a British director who made some rather nice adaptations of plays by Noel Coward and several books by Charles Dickens who went on to make a series of historical epics that made him into a major figure in the film world. Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Doctor Zhivago, before returning to a couple of tasteful literary adaptations. Ryan's Daughter which was based on Madame Bovary and A Passage to India, based on a book by E.M. Forster. Although, there was a certain amount of criticism of the last two that Lean couldn't shake the epic feel which overwhelmed his story. Well, as Edward Abbey once pointed out, it's not critics that make these decisions, it's the democracy of time.
So, the two actors in this photo. Leo McKern and Sarah Miles. Other members of the cast included Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, John Mills, and Christopher Jones. Jones is pretty much forgotten today, but when his career was just hitting it's stride he was thought of as the heir to James Dean. He made a movie that's now considered a cult classic. Wild in the Streets was about a 28 year old rock star elected president of the United States after the voting age is reduced to 16 and the age requirement for the office is eliminated.
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