Marlon Brando once approached director Michael Winner on the set and requested that the script be rewritten, to which Winner responded: "Marlon, you've had the script for nine months, we haven't got time to redo the whole bloody thing now, thank you very much. It's a low budget film and you had a great deal of time to make this speech. It's no good making it standing in a country lane in Cambridgeshire with Francis Ford Coppola behind the barrier with the crowd watching. This is not the time dear - I'm terribly sorry".
Winner loves Brando. "He took acting, which was basically stage oriented and he turned it into behavior." He adds that Brando's been imitated since by the likes of Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman.
At 41 mins.) A drunk Quint telling stories to the children Flora and Miles, and Brando told Winner he wanted to actually be drunk for the performance -- "so please shoot it at the end of the movie." Winner complied, Brando was intoxicated, and he nailed the scene.
Winner made a bet with Brando while the actor was in London filming Superman (1978) over the pronunciation of the word "integral," with the wager being that the loser "has to sell French ticklers, that is a male condom with bubbles on it, in Piccadilly for an hour." Winner lost the bet, and he discovered when Brando died in 2004 that he had kept the photos of Winner selling the condoms in Piccadilly Circus.
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