Stanley Baker "This Sporting Life" but had to drop out when "Guns of Navarone" went over schedule. She says Baker never regretted losing the part of Bond to Sean Connery but regretted not making "This Sporting Life". Baker wanted to move into production, and to this end formed his own company, Diamond Films with Endfield. They developed a script about the Battle of Rorke's Drift written by Endfield and John Prebble. While making "Sodom and Gomorrah" Baker struck up a relationship with that film's producer, Joseph E. Levine which enabled him to raise the $3 million budget for "Zulu" (1964), directed by
Jack Stanley and became independent in 1930. Stanley succeeded House as its general secretary in 1939. Stanley was known as a left-wing activist. He was a member of the board of the Labour Publishing Society, which launched the Socialist Fellowship in 1949, and published "Socialist Outlook", a newspaper associated with Gerry Healy. Under his leadership, the union affiliated to the Movement for Colonial Freedom, Stanley announced that he would retire in May 1957, but he died before he was able to do so. Jack Stanley Jack Stanley (1885 – 2 April 1957) was a British trade union leader. Born in Liverpool, Stanley