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  • Jade of Destiny, The
    37
    ,
    86
  • James II
    88
  • James, Sid
    187
  • Japan
    18
    ,
    118
    ,
    190
  • Japanese
    21
    ,
    184
    ,
    300
    ,
    315
    ,
    316
  • Jardine Matheson
    200
  • Jason, David
    83
  • Jefferson, Thomas
    51
    ,
    68
  • Jenkins, Herbert
    305
  • Jesus 115fn.,
    141
  • Jhansi
    118
  • Johnson, Beverly
    206
  • Johnson, Samuel
    xxii
    ,
    123
  • Jourdan, Louis
    244
  • Julius Caesar
    173
  • Jurado, Katy
    168
  • Kabul
    18
    ,
    22
  • Kaiser Wilhelm
    75
  • Kandahar
    302
  • Kendall, Kay
    283
  • Kennedy, Edward
    104
  • Kerima
    55
  • Kerr, Deborah
    171
  • Kersh, Gerald
    299
  • Kidnapped
    128
  • Kiel, Richard
    133
    ,
    136
  • Kiev
    176
    ,
    178
  • Kiliecrankie
    127
  • King, Dennis
    98
  • Kinnear, Roy
    6
    ,
    8
    ,
    12
    –
    14
    ,
    82
    ,
    280
  • Kipling, Rudyard
    68
    ,
    93
    ,
    249
    ,
    298
    ,
    300
  • Knox, John
    128
  • Konigsberg, Frank
    280
  • Korngold, Erich Wolfgang
    40
    ,
    208
    ,
    293
  • Kosovo
    89
    –
    93
  • Kray twins
    142
  • Kristel, Sylvie
    280
  • Kruschev, Nikita
    314
  • Kwai bridge
    315
  • La Dolce Vita
    265
  • Lancaster, Burt
    xxiii
    , 38 & fn.,
    97
    ,
    103
    ,
    160
    ,
    162
    –
    174
  • Landis, John
    113
    ,
    281
  • Langton, Simon
    280
  • Laughton, Charles
    140
  • Laurel, Stan
    98
    ,
    294
    ,
    314
  • Lawrence, Stephen
    222
  • Leacock, Stephen
    97
    ,
    293
  • Lean, David
    207
    ,
    208
  • Lee, Christopher
    5
    –
    7
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    12
    ,
    14
    –
    16
    ,
    56
    ,
    87
    ,
    168
    ,
    208
    ,
    280
  • Lees, Lt-Col R.G.
    314
    –
    316
  • Legion of Frontiersmen
    284
    ,
    288
  • Legrand, Michel
    6
    ,
    39
  • Legree, Simon
    213
  • Lemper, Ute
    75
  • Lenin, V.I.
    71
    ,
    178
  • Leningrad
    176
    ,
    178
    ,
    179
  • Leningrad Music Hall
    314
  • Leopard, The
    172
    ,
    173
  • Lester, Mark
    27
    ,
    29
    ,
    31
    –
    37
    ,
    40
    ,
    41
  • Lester, Richard
    1
    –
    16
    ,
    57
    ,
    59
    ,
    60
    ,
    63
    ,
    64
    ,
    82
    ,
    83
    ,
    265
    ,
    281
    ,
    283
    ,
    307
    ,
    308
  • Lettow-Vorbeck, von
    75
  • Liberal Democrats
    xviii
    ,
    51
    ,
    52
  • Lidice
    77
  • Lincoln, Abraham
    47
    ,
    68
  • Little Big Horn
    307
  • Liverpool Echo
    251
  • Lohengrin
    313
  • Lombard, Carole
    245
  • Lone Ranger, The
    113
    ,
    278
    ,
    281
  • Longford, Lord
    145
  • Longhurst, Henry
    276
  • Lord Chancellor’s office
    105
    ,
    106
  • Lord of the Rings, The
    53
  • Loss, Joe
    9
  • Louis XIV
    69
  • Louis, Joe
    98
    ,
    225
  • Loy, Myrna
    245
     
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    235
    ,
    236
    ,
    245
    ,
    246
  • Maastricht Treaty
    71
  • Macaulay, Lord
    122
    ,
    205
  • McAuslan, Private
    302
    ,
    303
  • Macbeth
    297
  • McCullogh, Willie
    124
  • MacDonalds, clan
    128
    ,
    288
  • MacDonald, Donald (great-uncle)
    302
  • MacDonald, George
    53
  • MacDonald, Janet (grandmother)
    125
    ,
    127
    ,
    288
  • McDowell, Malcolm
    83
    ,
    208
  • MacGregor, Rob Roy
    127
  • MacInnes, Angus
    62
  • MacKay, Ian
    254
  • McLaglen, Victor
    294
  • MacLaine, Shirley
    201
  • MacLehose, Christopher
    305
    ,
    310
  • Macmillan Film Encyclopedia
    55fn.
  • MacMillan, Maurice
    94
  • MacNeill, Isabella (grandmother)
    288
  • MacPherson, Lord
    145
    ,
    215
  • McQueen, Steve
    xiii
    ,
    xiv
    ,
    xxiii
    ,
    58
    ,
    84
    ,
    85
    ,
    204
    ,
    207
    –
    211
    ,
    284
  • Magna Carta
    74
  • Maibaum, Richard
    237
  • Mainwaring, Captain
    74
    ,
    75
  • Malaya
    305
  • Mandelson, Peter
    92
  • Man with the Golden Gun, The
    15
  • Marks and Spencer
    233
  • Marshall, E.G.
    63
  • Marty
    160fn.,
    162
  • Marvin, Lee
    211
  • Marx, Mr
    221
  • Mary Queen of Scots
    290
  • Maskell, Dan
    214
    ,
    276
  • Matter of Life and Death, A
    59
  • Matthau, Walter
    238
  • Matthews, Stanley
    123
    ,
    274
  • Mayer, Louis B.
    103
    ,
    245
  • Mazarin, Cardinal
    12
  • Mee, Arthur
    291
    ,
    292
  • Meerut
    118
  • Memoirs of a Buccaneer
    306
  • Mencken, H.L.
    196
    ,
    197
  • Mendelssohn, Felix
    294
  • Meredith, Burgess
    227
    ,
    228
  • Mexico
    194
  • Middleton, Guy
    30
  • Miller, Alice Duer
    197
  • Miller, Keith
    272
  • Milligan, Spike
    6
    ,
    9
  • Milosovic, Slobodan
    90
    , 91 & fn.
  • Mr American
    311
  • Mix, Tom
    294
  • Molineaux, Tom
    111
    ,
    112
  • Montaigne, Michel de
    255
  • Montand, Yves
    205
  • Montgomery, Bernard 181fn.
  • Moore, Roger
    208
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    211
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    234
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    235
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    237
  • More, Thomas
    128
  • Moscow
    176
    ,
    177
    ,
    179
    ,
    313
  • Mugabe, Robert
    159
  • Mount of Olives
    303
  • Muggeridge, Malcolm
    256
  • Muhammad Ali
    xxiii
    ,
    15
    ,
    57
    ,
    226
  • Mussolini, Benito
    69
    ,
    294
  • Muti, Ornella
    280
  • N.A.A.C.P.
    214
  • Napoleon
    69
    ,
    188
  • Narrow Margin
    , The
    27
     
  • National Front
    219
  • “Native Americans”
    113
    ,
    116
    ,
    118
    ,
    119
  • Nelson, Horatio
    188
  • Nero, Franco
    131
    ,
    136
    –
    138
  • Never Say Never Again
    244
  • New Labour
    xxi
    ,
    18
    ,
    52
    ,
    88
    –
    93
    ,
    114
  • Newbolt, Henry
    294
  • Newman, David
    55
    ,
    56
    ,
    60
    –
    62
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    64
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    65
  • Newman, Leslie
    55
    ,
    56
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    60
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    62
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    64
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    65
  • Newman, Paul
    57
    ,
    138
    ,
    204
    ,
    236
  • New Yorker, The
    111
  • New York Times
    306
  • News of the World
    255
  • Nielsen, Brigitte
    269
    ,
    271
  • Nimoy, Leonard
    313
  • Niven, David
    201
  • No Orchids for Miss Blandish
    97fn.
  • Noiret, Philippe
    12
  • Norman, Barry
    270
  • North, Lord
    xxiii
    ,
    88
  • Northern Ireland
    23
  • Noyes, Alfred
    294
     
  • Octopussy
    84
    ,
    212
    ,
    235
    –
    245
    ,
    285
  • OTS Bangalore
    300
    ,
    301
  • O’Halloran, Jack
    56
  • Old Testament
    115
  • Oliver!
    27
  • Oliver Twist
    112
  • Olivier, Laurence
    140
    ,
    173
  • Olympic Games
    157
    ,
    227
  • Omagh
    18
  • Oradour
    77
  • Orchard, Julian
    31
  • Orient Express
    308
  • Orwell, George
    xxi
    , 97fn.
  • Outcast of the Islands
    55
     
  • Palestine
    22
    ,
    303
  • Palestine Police
    303
  • Palmerston, Lord 20 & fn.
  • Panama Canal
    308
  • Parliament
    19
    ,
    44
    –
    52
    , 66fn. (see also Westminster)
  • Parkinson, Michael (show)
    82
    ,
    211
  • Parrish, Bob
    97
  • Partick Thistle
    313
  • Paterson, Bill
    12
    ,
    13
  • Patriot, The
    157
  • Peacock, Thomas Love
    249
  • Peake, Mervyn
    161
  • Peel, Robert
    117
  • Peninsular Hotel
    233
  • Penshurst Place
    28
  • Perrine, Valerie
    62
  • Petersen, Wolfgang
    283
  • Phillips, Leslie
    187
  • Pink Turtle cafe
    221
  • Pinochet, Augusto
    89
    ,
    92
    ,
    93
  • Pocohontas
    157
  • political correctness (p. c.)
    xv
    ,
    xviii
    ,
    xxi
    ,
    24
    ,
    104
    –
    119
    ,
    151
    ,
    155
    , 181 & fn.,
    188
    ,
    214
    ,
    221
    ,
    222
    ,
    224
    ,
    292
  • Pope, Alexander 229fn.
  • Pope John Paul
    116
    –
    118
    ,
    252
  • Pope Pius XI
    117
  • Pope Pius XII
    117
  • Powell, William
    245
  • Power, Tyrone
    168
    , 171fn.
  • Price, Vincent
    308
  • Prince and the Pauper, The
    26
    –
    43
    ,
    57
    ,
    84
    , 85fn.,
    199
    ,
    207
  • Prince Charles Edward
    289
    ,
    292
  • Prince of Wales
    244
  • Princess and Curdie, The
    53
  • Princess and the Goblin, The
    53
  • Princess Diana
    115
    ,
    195
    ,
    244
    ,
    251
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The
    268
  • proportional representation
    51
    ,
    52
  • Proust, Marcel
    97
  • Punch
    20fn.
  • Puritanism
    119
  • Puzo, Mario
    56
    ,
    64
  • Pyrates, The
    168
    ,
    311

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