Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren and daughter Barbara Murray. John Slater and Jane Hylton. Paul Dupuis. Raymond Huntley. Philip Stainton. Sydney Tafler. Hermione Baddeley. Margaret Rutherford. Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne. Charles Hawtrey.
I was interested to see that not everyone is in a suit and tie, notably Holloway who rarely wears a tie. Many shirts have rolled up sleeves and did I actually spy a T-Shirt in that busy (black) market?
It was shot in Lambeth in the rainy summer of 1948. Cornelius, a perfectionist, would often lose his cool, for example bawling out 18 year old Barbara Murray in from of the extras, and frequently fighting with Michael Balcon - apparently a six week shoot took six months. It was, however, a big hit with the public and the critics.
It's also a Georges Auric double bill.
Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway (it's also a Stanley Holloway double bill), Sid James, Alfie Bass.
Brilliantly written, by T.E.B. Clarke: The Geegaws casting process; that Guinness is helping the police find the gang; the schoolgirl's 'boyfriend' is a copper; chase through Police exhibition; the heist goes immediately wrong.
Photographed by Douglas Slocombe.
We Brits love it when people get away with cheeky crimes.
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