Shooting 007: And Other Celluloid Adventures by Alec Mills Sir Roger Moore

Author:Alec Mills, Sir Roger Moore
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750957403
Publisher: History Press (Perseus)
Published: 2014-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

With everything that happened throughout my career I am not sure that I really believe that it all was just ‘coincidence’ – which is possibly a convenient word used to cover up the reality – so was this next event meant to be? Many questions remain unanswered in life and time alone will tell …

With time moving on I waited on news of Suzy’s trip to England which, it would seem, was not going to happen. My one consolation was that my daily adventures with 007 were keeping me occupied. Although my thoughts were not completely with Budapest, people on the set knew about and were interested in Suzy’s arrival; in particular, there was a gentleman going by the name of Fred, a unit driver who had kindly offered to meet Suzy at Heathrow should she manage to get there. Everyone was being very kind to me.

With the Christmas holiday fast approaching and still no news from the embassy in Budapest, Suzy chased the officials every day with little gain. It would seem that confirmation was required from London before the documents could be issued and now, well into December and both embassies closing down for Christmas, the planned holiday appeared doomed to fail; it would take a miracle for this to happen now.

Enter Fred, the miracle man – a gentleman I hardly knew – who came onto the stage to see me.

‘Any news with Suzy?’ he enquired.

Many people are employed on films and one rarely gets to know them all by name as was the case with this Fred, but for some strange or wonderful reason he was kind enough to take an interest in our situation. Out of courtesy I explained the situation which Suzy found herself in and he listened patiently to the story, then turned back as he left.

‘I’ll make a phone call.’

He smiled and off he went about his business while I smiled too, wondering who this clown was. Obviously I didn’t take the gentleman seriously, thinking it unlikely that this kindly person would have any influence over government administration. Even so, Fred was kind and sympathetic to my cause, where by now I had accepted that Christmas would be celebrated in Croxley Road. However, it turned out that Fred’s fiancée worked in the visa office in London and he had asked her to check out the situation and see if Suzy’s visa had been granted, and if it had, then why it had not been forwarded to Budapest.

Apparently it was still in the out tray; undaunted by all of the red tape, the lady somehow managed to get the visa transferred to the British embassy in Budapest, where it was quickly passed on to the applicant. By now Suzy had given up all hope of news ever coming from the embassy, which had closed down for the holiday. Even so, the ‘miracle’ continued on its way when a kind lady at the embassy who was aware of the situation phoned Suzy with the news.

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