Nov 16, 2009 | Yorkshire Evening Post
Playing darts with a screen legend
The 1958 film Ice Cold in Alex starred Sir John Mills and is a British classic. Reporter Charles Heslett spoke to an ex-soldier from Leeds who guarded the cast in a north African desert and even became an unwitting extra WORKING down the pit driving ponies to and from the coal-face left Donald Westerman craving a better life.
Raise a glass to the science of beer
John Mills enjoys a drink in the classic film Ice Cold in Alex Photo: RONALD GRANT ARCHIVE He is the stock in trade of cartoonists and comics that lonely figure, tie askew, sitting at the bar, contemplating fate while gazing into a pint of beer.
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