It's Not Cricket (1949)
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. "This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
- Data di uscita
- 1949-04-01
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (4)
- Durata
- 1 h 17 min
- Generi
- Avventura, Commedia
- Regista
- Roy Rich, Alfred Roome
Cast
- Basil Radford — Maj. Bright
- Naunton Wayne — Capt. Early
- Susan Shaw — Primrose Brown
- Maurice Denham — Otto Fisch
- Nigel Buchanan — Gerald Lawson
- Alan Wheatley — Felix
- Jane Carr — Virginia Briscoe
- Patrick Waddington — Valentine Christmas
- Edward Lexy — Brig. Falcon
- Leslie Dwyer — Batman
- Frederick Piper — Yokel
- Diana Dors — Blonde
Curiosità
It's Not Cricket is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Alfred Roome and starring Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw and Maurice Denham. It was written by Gerard Bryant, Lyn Lockwood and Bernard McNabb. It is the second of two starring films for Radford and Wayne. It was one of the final films made by Gainsborough Pictures before the studio was merged into the Rank Organisation.
Production
Alfred Roome directed the film with Roy Rich, with Rich focusing on dealing with the actors. Roome called the movie "a slapstick action thing, really, almost a children’s picture. What I’d do now is cut out all the terrible, boring romance stuff with Susan Shaw; there was a lot of other chat that should have gone too, but other than that, it’s not too bad...
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