You Must Be Joking

You Must Be Joking (1965)

It's a mad-mad whirl of a hunt for guys and gals and goodies!

A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.

Date of release
1965-08-03
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Michael Winner

Casting

Interesting facts

You Must Be Joking! is a 1965 black and white British comedy film directed by Michael Winner and starring Michael Callan, Lionel Jeffries, and Denholm Elliott. It was written by Alan Hackney, from a story by Winner.

Production

The film was based on an original story by Michael Winner which was inspired by a real army initiative test where soldiers were asked to get as far away as possible from their camp at Catterick. He hired Alan Hackney, who had written several Boulting Brothers screenplays, to write the script.

While looking for finance, Winner was approached to make a film with the Dave Clark Five, but Winner did not like the idea. Charles H. Schneer liked the Hackney script and agreed to make it under a deal he had with Columbia and Winner says he suggested John Boorman take over the Dave Clark movie. Winner said Columbia insisted that Michael Callan play a lead role.

Winner hired a cameraman who felt they could not film in the locations that had been chosen, so Winner replaced him with Geoff Unsworth.

Johnny Speight did some uncredited writing on the film.

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