All for Mary

All for Mary (1955)

In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. When the two come down with chicken pox they are put in the charge of fellow guest Miss Cartwright, who turns out to be Humpy's old nanny. The two Englishmen unite not only against her tyranny but against a dense Greek who is also after Mary.

Date of release
1955-12-21
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Wendy Toye

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

All for Mary is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Wendy Toye and starring Nigel Patrick, David Tomlinson, Jill Day and Kathleen Harrison. It was written by Peter Blackmore, Paul Soskin and Alan Melville based on the successful West End play of the same title by Kay Bannerman and Harold Brooke, and was produced by Paul Soskin Productions for the Rank Organisation.

Production

The film was announced in January 1955 as part of Rank's slate for that year.

It was directed by Wendy Toye, who had joined the Rank Organisation after being under contract to Alex Korda. She later stated "they got me and they didn’t know what to do with me much and I think they had All for Mary on their hands and thought as she had been a theatre director that had been in the theatre, maybe that would be good subject for her."

Troye had a difficult relationship with producer Paul Soskin who she called "ridiculous".

Probably a remarkable man, but he was very, very Russian, held his cigarette in the wrong fingers and all that, and didn't understand English jokes at all. And there he was... seeing the rushes and deciding whether it was funny or not. Which seemed to be fairly bizarre to me. And there was a point when we actually managed to succeed to shut him out of the studio when we were shooting. We put the red light on.

The film had a four-week shoot with work in Pinewood and on location in . Maurice Carter, who did the design, recalled:

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