When the porter first knocked on Mr Atkinson’s door he was told to “go away, I am asleep”. The flood reached the ground floor from his second-floor bedroom and all the equipment (photocopier, electric typewriters etc) in the film’s production office in the first-floor bedroom was written off. On one occasion he ran a bath and went to bed without turning the taps off. Rowan Atkinson played the hotel manager, and he is very like Mr Bean in real life – rather eccentric. Enormous bouquets of roses would be delivered for her, and the girls on the switchboard would become very excited when he telephoned to speak to her, as there were no mobiles then. Parts of it were filmed at The Headland in Newquay, Cornwall, and the cast and crew was in residence whilst filming.Īngelica Houston starred as the Grand High Witch, and at that time, her boyfriend was Jack Nicholson. It was created by Jim Henson Productions and directed by Nicolas Roeg. In 1990, the film adaptation of The Witches was released.
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