Stop Press Girl (1949)
1h 18m
Running Time
June 2, 1949Release Date
Plot.
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
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Cast & Crew.
Sally Ann Howes
Jennifer Peters
Gordon Jackson
Jock Melville
Basil Radford
The Mechanical Type
Naunton Wayne
The Mechanical Type
James Robertson Justice
Arthur Peters
Sonia Holm
Angela Carew
Nigel Buchanan
Roy Fairfax
Joyce Barbour
Aunt Mab
Campbell Cotts
John Fairfax
Cyril Chamberlain
Johnnie
Julia Lang
Carole Saunders
Percy Walsh
Editor, Evening Comet
T.J. Morrison
Writer
Oliver Burt
Editor, Morning Sun
Kenneth More
Police Sgt. 'Bonzo'
Humphrey Lestocq
Radio Commentator
Donald Wilson
Producer
Vincent Ball
Hero in cinema sequence
Anne Valery
Heroine in cinema sequence
Michael Goodliffe
McPherson
Michael Balfour
Crook (uncredited)
John Boxer
Pub Landlord (uncredited)
Fred Griffiths
Truck Driver (uncredited)
Sam Kydd
Railway Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Arthur Lowe
Archibald (uncredited)
Jack May
Newspaper Seller (uncredited)
William Mervyn
Cinema Manager (uncredited)
Douglas Seale
Jeweller's Assistant (uncredited)
André van Gyseghem
Ex-Editor of Evening Comet (uncredited)
Jack Vyvyan
Hotel Porter (uncredited)
Patrick Waddington
Airline Director (uncredited)
Michael Ward
Hairdressers' Manager (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 2, 1949
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios, United Kingdom
Genres
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Wiki.
Stop Press Girl is a 1949 British fantasy comedy film directed by Michael Barry and starring Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne; the latter two appearing in several different roles in the film. It marked an early screen appearance by Kenneth More who later co starred with Hows in The Admirable Crichton.The film was one of the four of David Rawnsley's films that used his "independent frame" technique, a form of back projection.
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