[…]war correspondent...um...when was that, actually? Can you remember?David Prosser: August 1940.Alan Lawson: Ah ha, ah ha.David Prosser: Overnight. Um, Tony Kimmins, the playwright, director and commander, R.N., and you name it - famous chap - er 'phoned up my news editor and said "we need a man to go[…]
[…]r...then I went onboard er...aircraft carriers, and I was doing...then I was commissioned, and then eventually I finished up in Hong Kong, and er...Antony Kimmins...Alan Lawson: [interrupts] Oh yes, yes...Cyril Page: ...he was the Captain. Gordon Dines, er Lieutenant Dines, and er Paul Beeson again,[…]
[…]nbsp; Johnny Mills wasn’t it, right. Puffin Asquith directed and Tolly de Grunwald wrote it and produced it.ROY FOWLER: What about working with Tony, Tony Asquith?HARRY MILLER: Very good actually, very good  He used to – we used to go to lunch at a pub called the, er, at the corner of th[…]
[…]o drink, you know." So I said, "Oh." And he used to tell me these tales about how he came home drunk and all that sort of thing, and he used to knock Tony about... Anthony about. But he was marvellous when he was sober, and, you know, I learnt an awful lot about Tony's life then. And he remembered t[…]
[…]ow, that was the sort of problem that you could have and it was utterly unreasonable in my view. There was another occasion with music and - poor old Tony Mann is dead and gone, and he didn't like the score Rozsa did for 'El Cid', because he said he'd heard it before. Rozsa did, and I think he got a[…]
[…]oroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot about film; which is what I set out to do, and about studios and scientist and so on. And about that time Tony Essex, came and asked me if I would work on a series about the First World War, and my job would be finding the veterans who fought in that war, […]
[…] course June pulled him out and I said, "You ought to have left him there!" [laughter] But he was a real, right so-and-so. As a matter of fact I told Tony Hinds, the producer - Oh that's it, he got off the picture too! Michael Carreras came and took over. Everyone got off as soon as they could 'caus[…]
[…]a' which was Margaret Rutherford, all the low comedy, right?Alan Lawson: Ah hmm.Cyril Pennington-Richards: Not a cheap picture, directed by Tony Kimmins. And at the same time, or very soon after when I had agreed to do it, about next three or four days, Ivan Foxwell phoned me and he asked […]
[…]ut in retrospect I wish I hadn’t done them.Alan Lawson: What about The Intrepid Mr TwiggFreddie Francis: A friend of mine, he used to be a neighbour, Tony Marriott who wrote a couple of plays Uproar In The House and No Sex Please, We're British he had this idea to do a series on a man called Mr Twig[…]
[…]awson : Tommy BentleyPeter Birch : Yes that's right, it's a long time ago. My memory goes to hell.Alan Lawson : Then you did "Dance Pretty Lady" with Tony Asquith.Peter Birch : That's right, yes.Alan Lawson : Can you remember working with Tony?Peter Birch : Yeah I remember Tony very well, Puffin, ye[…]
