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Anthony Asquith (/ ˈ æ s k w ɪ θ /; 9 November 1902 – 20 February 1968) was an English film director.He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy (1948) and The Browning Version (1951), among other adaptations.
Orders to Kill is a 1958 British wartime drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Paul Massie, Eddie Albert and Irene Worth. [3] [4] It was written by Paul Dehn and George St. George based on a story by Donald Chase Downes, [5] [6] a former American intelligence operative who also acted as technical adviser to the film.
Massie won a BAFTA Award in 1959 for Most Promising Newcomer for his role in the Anthony Asquith movie Orders to Kill (1958) in which he played an American bomber pilot in Nazi-occupied France. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Also in 1958 he acted in the Peter Hall production of Tennessee Williams ' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Comedy Theatre in London, with ...
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an ageing Classics master at an English public school, and is forced into retirement by his increasing ill health.The film, in common with the original stage play, follows the schoolmaster's final two days in his post, as he comes to terms with his sense of failure as a teacher, a sense of weakness exacerbated by his wife's infidelity and the realisation that he is ...
On Such a Night is a 1955 British short semi-documentary film directed by Anthony Asquith [1] which offers a snap-shot of the Glyndebourne opera house in the 1950s, including extracts from Le nozze di Figaro, and a fictional first visit to the opera house by an American. The film was "very discreetly aimed at potential American audiences ...
Cottage to Let is a 1941 British spy thriller film directed by Anthony Asquith starring Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim and John Mills. [2] Filmed during the Second World War and set in Scotland during the war, its plot concerns Nazi spies trying to kidnap an inventor.
Two Fathers is a 1944 British wartime propaganda short film made by the Crown Film Unit, a division of the Ministry of Information, and directed by Anthony Asquith. [ 1 ] Plot
The Way to the Stars is a 1945 Anglo-American black-and-white Second World War drama film made by Two Cities Films.The film was produced by Anatole de Grunwald, directed by Anthony Asquith, and stars Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, and Douglass Montgomery.