:08:01
who plays
the Mansons' grandmother.
:08:04
She wasn't only the oldest actor
in the film,
:08:06
she was also the one who had to wait
longest to shoot her few scenes.
:08:11
(Day-Lewis)
At last we arrived at Loban,
:08:13
and in 8 hours made 40 shots,
:08:16
completing the entire
Sunday sequence at the croft,
:08:19
with all the pictorial angles
:08:21
and also every one
of Kitty Kirwan's scenes,
:08:24
for which she had been
patiently waiting 12 weeks.
:08:28
12 weeks on the island
for one day's work.
:08:31
She has the north wind to thank
for that hectic day,
:08:35
which started with her
listening to church bells
:08:38
and finished with her
dead on the grass.
:08:41
Kitty was sent for by cable
as soon as we had fixed our schedule.
:08:45
She was told to hurry.
:08:47
She caught the night express,
grabbed a plane at Aberdeen,
:08:50
raced across Shetland in a car,
jumped onto the waiting Vedra
:08:55
and arrived at Rock city
in 27 hours from Rock studio.
:08:57
An all-time record.
:09:00
Not bad for an 80-year-old.
:09:03
All her first scenes
were with John Laurie.
:09:06
The Vedra passed the mail boat
:09:08
taking him out
with his fractured collarbone.
:09:10
We broke the news to Kitty.
:09:12
She settled down for the longest wait
an actress has had in history.
:09:18
(Christie) The kirk, or the church,
played a central part
:09:21
in the islanders' life.
:09:23
And in this form of Presbyterianism
:09:26
you could judge
the quality of the service
:09:29
by the length of the sermon.
:09:31
It's also an occasion, of course,
when the social hierarchy
:09:34
of the island is on display,
:09:37
where everyone's dressed up
in their Sunday best
:09:39
and where the heads
of the two important families,
:09:43
the Grays and the Mansons,
meet each other.
:09:47
There's a little bit of tussling
for status.
:09:50
John Laurie is
the laird's representative,
:09:53
as he reminds Finlay Currie,
:09:55
who's the church elder.
:09:59
There's clearly some competition