The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
1h 24m
Running Time
September 27, 1949Release Date
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
1h 24m
Running Time
September 27, 1949Release Date
Plot.
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham..
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Cast & Crew.
David Tomlinson
Lord Tony Pym
Lana Morris
Bessie Sykes
Cecil Parker
Benjamin Beecham
Marjorie Fielding
Lady Lister
Tom Macaulay
Cleghorn
Joyce Carey
Lady Caroline
Helen Backlin
June Farrell
Robert Cawdron
Sergeant
Cyril Chamberlain
Sentry
Peggy Ann Clifford
Mother
Richard Dunn
Labour Agent
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Lady Fielding
Bill Shine
Reporter
Dervis Ward
Driver
Desmond Llewelyn
First Guardsman (uncredited)
Laurence Naismith
Reporter (uncredited)
Richard Wattis
Vicar (uncredited)
John Wynn
Second Guardsman
A.E. Matthews
Lord Lister
Michael Brennan
Sergeant
Charles Cullum
Colonel
Anthony Steel
Adjutant
Joan Hopkins
Flower Show Attendee (uncredited)
Gerald Andersen
Mr. Brown
F. Sherwin Green
Production Manager
Desmond Dew
Sound Recordist
John W. Mitchell
Sound Recordist
Peter Bolton
Assistant Director
Edward Marshall
Assistant Art Director
Olga Brook
Continuity
Tony Sforzini
Makeup Supervisor
Vivienne Walker
Hair Supervisor
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 27, 1949
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 24m
Content RatingG
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
based on play or musical
conservatism
butler
middle class
parliament
socialism
political party
landed gentry
Wiki.
The Chiltern Hundreds (released in the U.S. as The Amazing Mr. Beecham) is a 1949 British politically-themed comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs, adapting William Douglas Home's 1947 play of the same name and starring Lana Morris, David Tomlinson and Cecil Parker.
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