The Fast Lady (1962)
She's the fastest thing in town and oh boy! what a CHASSIS!
A naïve Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
- Date of release
- 1962-12-14
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (22)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Ken Annakin
Casting
- James Robertson Justice — Commander Charles Chingford
- Leslie Phillips — Freddie Fox
- Stanley Baxter — Murdoch Troon
- Kathleen Harrison — Mrs. Staggers
- Julie Christie — Claire Chingford
- Eric Barker — Wentworth
- Fred Emney — Golfer
- Eddie Gray — Golfer
- Frankie Howerd — Road Workman in Hole
- Raymond Baxter — Self
- John Bolster — Self
- Graham Hill — Self
Interesting facts
The Fast Lady is a 1962 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin and starring James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Kathleen Harrison, and Julie Christie. The screenplay was by Henry Blyth and Jack Davies, based on the 1925 novel The Fast Lady by Keble Howard. It was the third in a trilogy of comedies written by Jack Davies that Annakin made for Independent Artists.
Production
The Fast Lady is a 1927 Bentley 4½ Litre Red Label Speed model with Vanden Plas short chassis fabric body, registration number TU5987. It was sold by a specialist dealer in 2010. In the film, Claire Chingford (Julie Christie) says The Fast Lady is a 3-litre.
A scene involving a striptease by Claire was heavily censored.
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