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  • One was called Tumbledown, which was a BBC drama that didn’t get a theatrical release in America, though it has just come out again in England on DVD.

    Buzzine » Colin Firth Interview 2008

  • Firth, in contrast, garnered early plaudits for his television performances in Tumbledown in 1988 and, of course, as the sombre Darcy in Pride and Prejudice in 1995, yet he took his time picking up accolades as a leading man on the big screen.

    Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50 Vanessa Thorpe 2010

  • I'm not sure how retirees respond to courses with names like Trails End, Twilight, Teetering Rocks, Tumbledown Trails, Coldwinters and Petrifying Springs.

    You Named Your Golf Course What? John Paul Newport 2011

  • Eyre's father never saw any of his professional work on stage, and hated Eyre's controversial 1989 television film about the Falklands, Tumbledown.

    A life in theatre: Richard Eyre Andrew Dickson 2010

  • Q: In meeting you years ago -- the days of the Falklands' war film Tumbledown -- you were a very serious guy and never seemed that ambitious.

    Brad Balfour: Golden Globe Nominee Colin Firth Refines The King's Speech Brad Balfour 2010

  • Q: In meeting you years ago -- the days of the Falklands' war film Tumbledown -- you were a very serious guy and never seemed that ambitious.

    Brad Balfour: Golden Globe Nominee Colin Firth Refines The King's Speech Brad Balfour 2010

  • Tumbledown. com recently posted this video of Frank Zappa on a 1986 episode of Crossfire, defending words and the First Amendment.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Doing Tumbledown was an amazing experience because I played a boy who was my age in a real story about Robert Lawrence, a soldier who was shot in the head in the Falklands War.

    Buzzine » Colin Firth Interview 2008

  • RG I really hope the BBC screen the Falklands War Film Tumbledown it shows what War is really about without the glory more the gory reality and brutality of killing as is every infantrymans job and the sheer will to survive a horrific head wound when hit by an Argentine sniper.

    The hardest fight of all for a Falklands hero Rogue Gunner 2007

  • Army officer Robert Lawrence above left was nearly killed by an Argentine sniper during a battle that became the inspiration for one of the most controversial BBC films ever - Tumbledown.

    The hardest fight of all for a Falklands hero Rogue Gunner 2007

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