‘There are times when fiction is truer than truth’.
Bill Hamblett recalls how his dad’s fantasy novel, The Crazy Kill, was inspired by true events surrounding the filming of Moby Dick, and led to a small boy rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty.
The man organising the giant lantern parade at Fishguard and Goodwick’s Ar Ymyl y Tir/On Land’s Edge Moby Dick-themed festival has a unique connection with the great white whale.
Bill Hamblett, director of Cardigan’s Small World Theatre, was a near-neighbour of leading man Gregory Peck in California during the late 1950s and his father, Charles, a Hollywood screenwriter who worked on John Huston’s classic 1956 movie.
Bill has offbeat recollections on the creation of Huston’s masterpiece, as well as his own family’s colourful background including a link to John Lennon!
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'Mae adegau pan fod ffuglen yn fwy gwir na gwirionedd’.
Mae Bill Hamblett yn cofio sut y cafodd nofel ffantasi ei dad, The Crazy Kill, ei hysbrydoli gan ddigwyddiadau gwir o amgylch ffilmio Moby Dick. Arweiniodd hyn at fachgen bach yn rhwbio ysgwyddau gyda theulu brenhinol Hollywood.
Mae gan y dyn a drefnodd yr Gorymdaith lusernau enfawr Moby Dick yng Ngŵyl Ar Ymyl y Tir/On Land’s Edge yn Abergwaun ac Wdig, gysylltiad unigryw â’r morfil gwyn mawr.
Roedd teulu Bill Hamblett, sy’n gyfarwyddwr Theatr Byd Bach Aberteifi, yn gymydogion agos i’r prif actor Gregory Peck yng Nghaliffornia yn ystod diwedd y 1950au. Gwaith tad Bill, Charles Hamblett, oedd ysgrifennu sgriptiau yn Hollywood, gan gynnwys sgript ffilm glasurol John Huston yn 1956.
Bydd Bill yn rhannu ei atgofion anarferol am greu campwaith Huston, yn ogystal â chefndir lliwgar ei deulu ei hun gan gynnwys cysylltiad â John Lennon!
A pre On Land's Edge festival history talk in collaboration with Ein Hanes.
