Dinah Sheridan

John Gregson

Kay Kendall

Kenneth More

Geoffrey Keen

Reginald Beckwith

Arthur Wontner

Joyce Grenfell

Leslie Mitchell

Michael Balfour

Stanley Escane

Fred Griffiths

Charles Lamb

Arthur Lovegrove

Edie Martin

Edward Malin

Michael Medwin

Harold Siddons

Fred Nicholas

Joey Carr

Patrick Westwood

Lesley Dudley

Christopher Warbey

Richard Duke

Ernest Blyth

Aileen Lewis

Martin Lyder

Frank Schock

Jim Tyson

Daniel Brown

Billy Wilmot

Henry Cornelius

William Rose

Larry Adler

Clive Donner

Christopher Challis

Marjory Cornelius

Yvonne Axeworthy

Muir Mathieson

Paul Rabiger

Michael Stringer

Ted Moore

Helen Penfold

C. C. Stevens

Gordon K. McCallum

Comedy

Genevieve

La Société des Films Sirius

J. Arthur Rank Organisation

United Kingdom

CinemaSerf

Very much in the spirit of the "Ealing Comedies", this is a simple and engaging story of two chaps - "Alan" (John Gregson) and "Ambrose" (Kenneth More) who bet each other the princely sum (in 1953) of £100 on which of their vintage cars can race the 50-odd miles from London to Brighton quickest. Dragging their reluctant partners "Wendy" (Dinah Sheridan) and "Rosalind" (Kay Kendall) along too, we embark of a fun series of escapades as they test the limits of their friendship, the patience of the police (a nice effort from Geoffrey Keen) and their respective engineering. The photography is colourful and the cars almost as temperamental as their increasingly competitive drivers. Kendall is probably the star for me - pushing a car from an huge puddle was definitely not what she signed up for; and the ending is quite literally neck-and-neck. There is plenty of light-hearted humour to be had, and Larry Adler has composed a suitably jolly score to accompany their automotive antics. All good fun!

English

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