When Harry Met Cubby Robert Sellers by Robert Sellers 9780750992909, 0750992905 instant download after payment.

They are two of the most extraordinary filmmakers the movie business has ever known, responsible for the most successful movie franchise in history, and yet they were two men of such vastly different personalities, ambitions and desires, that it was a remarkable feat in itself that their partnership lasted as long as it did. Cubby the large, warm, Italian New Yorker, and Harry, a tough pugnacious Canadian; together they created fireworks. ‘We have a kind of chemistry that gels,’ Saltzman once said. ‘We fight with the distributors, we fight with the agents and we fight with each other.’

Even with all the bickering and disagreements, they did complement one another because each of them brought something completely unique to Bond, as screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz observed: ‘Harry was such a volatile guy, all the time moving, going, things happening. And I always thought privately that Harry was never happier than when he was either suing somebody or getting sued. So much of the pizazz that went in Bond belonged to Harry, and much of the essence and soul of Bond was Cubby.’

Cubby was the calmer of the two, the diplomat, as Michael Caine observed: ‘They’re like two policemen. Cubby gives you the cigarette and Harry knocks it out of your mouth.’3 Harry and Cubby worked as a double act, in the sense – and this often happens in partnerships – that Cubby was the nice guy, while Harry did most of the dirty work, laying down the law. This probably didn’t help Harry’s reputation with the crew, although that was probably his natural disposition anyway. As Honor Blackman observed on the set of Goldfinger, ‘Harry was the one who put the pressure on. Cubby was acting like a teddy bear.’