It's Not Cricket (1949)
1h 17m
Running Time
April 1, 1949Release Date
Plot.
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond .
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Cast & Crew.
Basil Radford
Major Bright
Naunton Wayne
Captain Early
Susan Shaw
Primrose Brown
Maurice Denham
Otto Fisch
Nigel Buchanan
Gerald Lawson
Alan Wheatley
Felix
Roy Rich
Director
Jane Carr
Virginia Briscoe
Alfred Roome
Director
Patrick Waddington
Valentine Christmas
Lyn Lockwood
Writer
Edward Lexy
Brig. Falcon
Bernard McNabb
Writer
Gerard Bryant
Writer
Leslie Dwyer
Batman
Frederick Piper
Yokel
Betty E. Box
Producer
Diana Dors
Blonde
Mary Hinton
Lady Lawson
Margaret Withers
Mrs. Falcon
Brian Oulton
Simon Herbage
John Boxer
MP #1
Cyril Chamberlain
MP #2
Charles Cullum
Sir Leslie Lawson
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It's Not Cricket is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Alfred Roome and starring Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw and Maurice Denham. It is the second (after 1941's Crook's Tour) of two starring films for Radford and Wayne who appeared as supporting players in ten other films. It was also one of the final films made by Gainsborough Pictures before the studio was merged into the Rank Organisation.