Michael Denison

Dulcie Gray

Sydney Tafler

Kenneth Connor

Geraldine McEwan

Bill Owen

Charles Farrell

Tommy Duggan

Bill Shine

Lawrence Huntington

John Jowett

Gerald Gibbs

Joseph Sterling

Ann Fordyce

John O'Gorman

Charles Tasto

Peter Pitt

Wilfred Burns

Eric Cass

Frederick Pusey

Comedy

There Was a Young Lady

Nettlefold Films

United Kingdom

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Wherever Michael Denison was, Duclie Gray was never far away - and together they are again in this light-hearted comedy thriller. He is the boss of a diamond brokers; she ("Elizabeth") his secretary/fiancée who after a bit of a row, storms out and into the middle of a heist. The criminals take her along so she cannot identify them, but not before she manages to leave a clue for her husband-to-be "David". Certain that he will understand and pursue with the police, she starts to ingratiate herself with this not very menacing bunch of crooks and, well you can easily guess the rest. The story is a bit thin, and the script flows a bit like glue at times but there are some fun contributions from Bill Owen, Charles Farrell (no, not the silent one) and an early outing for an instantly recognisable Geraldine McEwan (looking not unlike Maggie Smith!). It's a fine example of the simplicity that made us Brits laugh in the early 1950s and taken in that spirit it doesn't disappoint.

English