Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter (1949)

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

Date of release
1949-08-07
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Director
Ralph Thomas

Casting

Interesting facts

Helter Skelter is a 1949 British romantic comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson and Mervyn Johns. It was written by Patrick Campbell.

Production

Director Ralph Thomas called the film "one of those 'Friday night pictures'" he made under Sydney Box. "You were quite likely to finish shooting on Friday, plan to go into the cutting rooms on Monday to look over your stuff and get your cut ready, then go for a drink, and you'd be given another script and be told, 'The sets are standing and you start on Monday – this is the cast!' It wasn't necessarily good and we didn't get a lot of money, but i…

Thomas did not "particularly want to make comedies, but I said I'd enormously admired a crazy American picture called Hellzapoppin! We cast it well and enjoyed making it, although I never quite understood the storyline. Funnily enough it has become a sort of cult picture in odd places."

Associate producer Alfred Roome called it "terrible, you couldn't do anything with that."

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