Duffy

Um, and, you know, it was only, um, a short while, was it before or after that? Battle was '68.

You know, I'd just, in fact, done my first film as a supervisor the year before, um, at the tender age of twenty-one, uh, called, uh, Duffy with James Coburn, James Mason, James Fox, Susannah York.

Um, we filmed down in Almería, and the main task I had to do was blow up a fifty-five-foot long real Spanish fishing boat and sink it in the Med.

Um, and not only that, we had to film it from a helicopter.

Were you an Annie orphan?

Yeah, I was Duffy, but no one gets who she is.

Oh, I love Duffy.

[laughs] Duffy's the smartest.

You get her-

And she has that...

"Like ashtrays and art."

[laughs] Instantly right there.

Hearing their familiar banter in these shows feels like a visit with old childhood friends.

We stop at Duffy's Tavern, a local watering hole.

an early incarnation of the Cheers TV show where everyone knows your name.

Let's close with a radio adaptation of the Broadway play and film, Arsenic and Old Lace.

Oh, get out.

Get out.

Hello, Duffy's Tavern.

Where do you leave me to eat? Archie, your manager's speaking.