Over the weekend BBC TV showed a documentary, "Truly, Madly, Cheaply" about British B movies and the people who made them. In the 1950s some of the cheapest were made by a colourful character called E J Fancey - who was incidentally the first person to employ Michael Winner to direct a picture, and Mr Winner was interviewed.

"E J never lost his flair for spotting talent. Some time after I left, E J suddenly rings me.
"Michael", he says, "I've got five people with me and they're the ugliest people you've ever seen. They're so ugly we'll 'ave to make an 'aunted 'ouse picture with them - all you can do with them is 'ave an 'aunted 'ouse!"
I said, "But E J, I've got a lunch appointment...".
"No, he says, I'm gonna send 'em over right now to your office. You gotta see 'em".
So into my office comes - the Rolling Stones. All five of 'em."

We never learned exactly when this was, or what happened next - but the 'aunted 'ouse picture never got made.

Orange Clockwise was also supposed to feature the Stones, at first.

A Clockwork Orange......

Vilhelm
Nordic Stones Vikings

Yeah, I cooked an orange jam

Please no orange anymore

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Oranje Boven! as they say in The Netherlands.

Orange Mécanique in French !

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Sorry for my english ; I'm a french little boy (but I like it)

Interesting stuff Green Lady, makes you think that there could have been any number of half-baked schemes involving the Stones to cash in on their notoriety but which never saw the light of day. Still, 'what happened next' is the question to which we need to know the answer!

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Orange Clockwise was also supposed to feature the Stones, at first.

Yeah, but not excactly the one, Stanley Kubrik was supposing. It was a whole different "project" driven by Andrew Loog Oldham.

And I reckon the episode, Green Lady is refering to must have happened even before that. When the Stones were still thinking about doing their own "Hard Days Night".



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May 1966:-
"ina major acquisition the film rights to the novel "Only Lovers Left Alive" was purchased by Allen Klein for the Rolling Stones. The Stones are to join that affluent acting society peopled by such chosen people as Richard and Elizabeth Burton who command $1million per film.
The group already surrounded with astronomical earnings from concerts and records......etc
ALO and AK to co-produce"
The project was quietly shelved by the year end.
You have to smile at the statement. Did "the boys" really buy into any of it?
I belive the 1965 deal with Klein may have referrd to a 5 "motion picture deal".
I suspect it was more influenced by ALO's fantasies.Of course, to be fair, the movie industry-much more than the record industry- is always full of aborted works, from those which are just pipe dreams to those which are filmed and never released. The career of Orson Welles is a case to point. Mick's "film career" -as actor and producer has many such cases. Of course, now he's not likely to broadcast any such possibilities until they are actually at the confirmed stage.
I wonder what did happen to those "astronomical earnings" - 4 years later they were broke (well, its all relative-they had aquired mansions in the country by that stage).

I guess Michael Winner would know the answer to "what happened next". This does sound like a half-baked scheme to me - E J Fancey was a real bargain basement producer who made cheap exploitation stuff - I wonder how the Stones came to apply to him to make a film?