Greta Gynt

John McCallum

Raymond Lovell

Sonia Holm

Leslie Dwyer

Charles Victor

Felix Aylmer

Sydney King

Noel Howlett

Barry Jones

Claude Bailey

Desmond Roberts

Diana Dors

Cyril Chamberlain

O.B. Clarence

M.E. Clifton James

Constance Smith

Douglas Peirce

Antony Darnborough

W.T. Partleton

Claude Hitchcock

Arthur Wilkinson

Cyril J. Knowles

John Elphick

B. C. Sewell

Bill Salter

Edgar Wallace

Julie Harris

Al Rhind

Reginald H. Wyer

Jean Barker

Geoffrey Kerr

George Provis

Arthur Crabtree

Muir Mathieson

Basil Keys

Charles Knott

Len Harris

Arthur Alcott

Drama

The Calendar

Gainsborough Pictures

United Kingdom

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John McCallum ("Capt. Gary Anson") is a bit of a cove. He likes his good living, women and horses. When an expected inheritance doesn't materialise, he loses the girl and the money - but still as his horses, and a potential winner at that. Unfortunately for him, he gets a bit pickled one evening and decides to be a bit clever - causing suspicion to be laid at his door that there has been some race fixing going on. The ensuing investigation pits him against his former love (Greta Gynt - who has appropriated a £20,000 set of pearls from him) and her new, buffoon, husband "Lord Panniford" (Raymond Lovell) and it all boils down to a one hundred pound note. It's a throwaway little story but some decent writing from Geoffrey Kerr and lively characterisations from McCallum as well as a suitably venal Gynt and Leslie Dwyer as his street-wise batman "Hillcott' help to keep it moving along sharpishly. It's a touch too long, the jokes becomes a bit stretched, but it's still worth a watch if you like the cut and thrust of the horse racing world.

English