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3 unusual facts about On the Fiddle


On the Fiddle

The fighting scenes in the woods were shot in and around "The Sandpit" on Horsell Common near Woking, Surrey.

It was one of the last films released before Connery was cast as James Bond in the 1962 film Dr No.

It noted that the release in the United States was "an obvious cash-in" on Connery's subsequent popularity as James Bond.



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Madeleine Mitchell

She subsequently recorded Nyman's work 'On The Fiddle', written for her in 1993, as part of her album In Sunlight: Pieces for Madeleine Mitchell NMC D098 of music written for her by Brian Elias, Stuart Jones, James MacMillan, Stephen Montague, Nigel Osborne, Anthony Powers, and John Woolrich with pianist Andrew Ball in 2005.