Meet Simon Cherry

Meet Simon Cherry (1949)

Meet Simon Cherry was based on a popular BBC radio program of the 1940s titled Meet the Rev. Hugh Moxey plays the title role, a Father Brown-style clergyman who solves crimes when he isn't saving souls

Date of release
1949-11-01
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 7m
Genres
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director
Godfrey Grayson

Casting

Interesting facts

Meet Simon Cherry is a 1949 British second feature ('B') mystery film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Hugh Moxey. The screenplay was by Grayson and A. R. Rawlinson based on the BBC radio series Meet the Rev by Gale Pedrick, featuring the crime solving cleric. The film was originally to be called Meet the Rev, but when the film was trade shown on 22 November 1949, the title was changed. It was released theatrically in January 1950. Hammer had intended to produce a series of Simon Cherry films, but cancelled the project after this first film failed to become a hit.

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