Stop Press Girl (1949)
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
- Date of release
- 1949-06-02
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Michael Barry
Casting
- Sally Ann Howes — Jennifer Peters
- Gordon Jackson — Jock Melville
- Basil Radford — The Mechanical Type
- Naunton Wayne — The Mechanical Type
- James Robertson Justice — Arthur Peters
- Sonia Holm — Angela Carew
- Nigel Buchanan — Roy Fairfax
- Joyce Barbour — Aunt Mab
- Campbell Cotts — John Fairfax
- Cyril Chamberlain — Johnnie
- Julia Lang — Carole Saunders
- Percy Walsh — Editor, Evening Comet
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Pinewood Studios
Stop Press Girl is a 1949 British fantasy comedy film directed by Michael Barry and starring Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne; the latter two appearing in several different roles in the film. It marked an early screen appearance by Kenneth More, who later co-starred with Howes in The Admirable Crichton (1957).
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