LET'S continue our trawl through the many movies that have been filmed in Weymouth and Portland over the years.

Mike Lee is back to educate us on the film industry's use of the borough as a movie backdrop.

This week, he wants to draw The Heroes of Telemark to your attention. It starred Kirk Douglas and was partly filmed in Weymouth in 1964.

Mike said: "This film concerns Norwegian resistance fighters and their attempts to destroy a heavy water plant and sabotage plans for the Germans to create an atomic bomb.

"Some seagoing scenes were shot at Poole and Weymouth.

"The sea shots from Poole included local extras dressed as Nazi officers who earned £2.10 a day."

While in Weymouth the film crew chartered a cargo boat called Roebuck which was nearing the end of its days. It was painted up by the film company and renamed Galtesund.

Trevor Matthews, who at the time was working between Westward TV and the BBC filming local news, was sent to the filming one morning at the quay.

On arrival the director Anthony Mann said he had a problem with the film crew who had gone on strike over expenses and fees.

He then asked Trevor: "You're a cameraman can you set the camera up to shoot Kirk Douglas coming out of the hold onto the deck?"

Trevor said: "I thought it was my big opportunity and got my light meter out straight away." Trevor was used to using 16mm but the crew's 35mm Panavision camera was new to him.

After a dummy run with a stand in it worked okay and Trevor was then confident to go ahead. The shot worked well and Kirk Douglas was kind enough to go and do it all again for Trevor's TV work,

Trevor forgot all about his role as cameraman until a year on when the film came out and he was thrilled to see that his shot had been kept in.