John Daly, The Aryan Couple

In this interview with Stephen Schaefer, John Daly exudes the kind of confidence you might expect from someone with more than 30 years of experience producing and making movies, but now he's more than fulfilled a dream to direct with an unusually bold, if overwrought, second feature, The Aryan Couple. The film is set in 1944 Hungary, with Martin Landau in the leading role as a Jewish industrialist forced by Heinrich Himmler to exchange his family's life for his factory as part of the still-little-known Europa Plan. Genial and distinguished-looking enough in his goatee and suit to be mistaken for a banker, Daly was the co-founder (with actor David Hemmings) of the now, sadly defunct Hemdale Films, which in 1986 and 1987 won back-to-back Best Picture Oscars for Platoon and The Last Emperor.

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