John Mills News

Barbara Taylor Bradford, 76, is entitled to continue "Breaking the Rules," as the name of her 25th novel suggests.

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.

EVERYONE in the little town of Dingle in Co Kerry, Ireland, remembers the heady days and boisterous nights when Hollywood took over their lives for the filming of Ryan's Daughter.

Twenty-five films that made it from the book shelf to the box office with credibility intact.

MANY Cardiffians will remember the Gaumont Cinema in Queen Street which closed in 1960 and which was demolished to make way for the C& A store.

I watched Tunes of Glory again last night. It's one of my favourite films*. During it, Basil Barrow, the newly-arrived Colonel of the battalion, played by John Mills, mentions his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War: Oh they gave me time, all right.

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.