We had a wonderful cast. If you just see the first frame, you know, in the credits, where you have Edith Evans and Michael Redgrave... no, it's not Michael Redgrave.
[Q] George Devine.
Yes, George Devine, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Rachel Kempson who was married to Michael Redgrave, some wonderful people. And there was a scene in, in... there was a scene in the latter part... I should've said, the filming that we were in... we were in Yorkshire. We were in Somerset and Dorset for three-quarters of the schedule, then we moved to London. For the last four weeks, I think, we moved to London. And we shot the London scenes, partly in Lincoln's Inn Fields, partly in the back of... there's a street of warehouses in Stepney which we used, which was used many times for movies. And... and then we shot the... there's a sort of garden party which we shot in, which was supposed to be the Vauxhall Gardens, which was a famous entertainment centre of the day. And we shot that in Holland Park, which conveniently was just across the road from where I lived. But it was a night scene, and there's a scene where Edith Evans and Hugh Griffith were both in costume and he was wearing an elephant trunk. They're walking around this little pond which is about that deep, has some goldfish in it. And they're walking around this little pond and Hugh, who was slightly drunk probably, kept fluffing. And in the end... after about the third take, Edith took him to one side and said, 'Hugh, if you don't get it right next time I shall push you in the pond!' But he did get it right.
But Hugh Griffith, he was an irascible character, to say the least. Initially, I used to accept lifts from him. He had a chauffeured car, of course, and we were driving down the Somerset lanes at 7.00am, and they're very narrow and they have very high hedges. So you can't see round the corners, I know you can't see round corners, but you can't see ahead, so he kept... we got stuck behind a milk float or something, and he kept pushing the chauffeur in the back, and saying, 'Go on, overtake, overtake!' So I stopped accepting lifts from him. There was one occasion when he was in a bit of temper and he... and Tony had a Thunderbird motor car, and it had a removable top. So there was an occasion when he was angry... he was annoyed with Tony and this Thunderbird top was lying in the grass somewhere and he fired a shotgun at it. And the best... the best occasion with... the funniest thing with Hugh Griffith, and it's all in the film, is where he has a meeting, an altercation, with the other squire. Who was playing that, the other one?
[Q] George Devine.
Of course, with George Devine. He has an altercation with George Devine and he's supposed to jump on his horse and wheel the horse around and ride off. And when he did that, he pulled the rein much too violently and the horse started turning in ever decreasing circles, and finally collapsed, with him, on the ground. They left it all in the movie, but when it happened, he said to Kate, who was standing next to me, he said, 'Go and see if he's dead, darling'. But he wasn't even injured. But that was lovely. It's lovely. It's in the movie and it seems, sort of, quite natural, because he's supposed to be you know, a temperamental guy who is in a temper.
