PORT TOWNSEND — One hundred sixty movie fans packed the Rose Theatre Sunday to see the 1963 film, “The Ugly American.”
In addition to a rare, big-screen view of a 40-year-old film that’s become a cult favorite, they received a behind-the-scenes look at its creation from producer-director George Englund and scriptwriter Stewart Stern.
For Don Nunley of Lake Sutherland, it was already familiar.
“I remember every shot and where it was done,” he said after Sunday’s showing to raise funds for the Port Townsend Film Festival.
Nunley, who retired to Sequim in 1989 and now lives at Lake Sutherland, was the assistant propmaster for the movie at age 23.
Now 64, he worked on “The Ugly American” under his father, Willard Nunley, a veteran propmaster whose first film was the 1930 classic, “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
“My job was to stand next to the camera,” Nunley said.
“Someone had to be there the whole time to make sure the everything in the scenes matched.”
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