UK, 1949
78m
35mm film, black and white, 1.37:1
mono, English
A British comic fantasy film directed by Michael Barry.
Plot Summary
A young woman has the power to stop machinery with her mind.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Director: Michael Barry
© Aquila Film Productions
Aquila Film Productions
Producer: Donald B. Wilson
Associate Producer: Ralph Nunn-may
Production Manager: Denis Holt
Production Planner: John Defries
Production Planner: John Defries *
Assistant Production Planner: Derek Burrell-Davis *
Screenplay: T.J Morrison
Based on an original story by: T.J Morrison, Basil Thomas
Assistant Director: Dicky Leeman
2nd Assistant Director: Jack Lambert *
Continuity: Adele Reynolds
Assistant Continuity: Diana Massy-collier *
Director of Photography: Cyril Bristow
Camera: Bill Allan, Arthur Ibbetson
Focus Puller: Henry Slagter *
Production Stills: Harry Gillard *
Portrait Stills: Charles Trigg *
Publicity Stills: Bob Hawkins, George Courtney Ward *
Editor: Sidney Hayers
Assembly Cutter: Jack Slade *
Music Composed, Arranged and Conducted: Walter Goehr
Music played by: London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, London Symphony Orchestra: George Stratton
Sound: Charles Knott, Gordon McCallum
Boom Operator: Gerry Bennett *
Technical Supervisor: L.E. Overton
1st Assistant Dubbing Mixer: Peter T. Davies *
Sound Editor: Leonard Trumm
Dresses Designed by: Pearl Falconer
Dresses made by: Eve Betts Ltd.
Wardrobe: M. Berman Ltd.
Ladies Wardrobe Supervisor: Dorothy Edwards *
Mens Wardrobe Supervisor: Bob Raynor *
Make-up Supervisor: George Blackler *
Hairstylist: Biddy Chrystal *
Special Effects: Francis Carver
Special Effects Associate: John Gow
Transparency Photography: Messervy Whiting
Transparency Projection: Charles Staffel
Frame Supervisor: Geoffrey Woodward
Assistant Frame Supervisor: Bernard Hanson *
Production Designer: Douglas Daniels
Unit Art Director: David Morrison
Assistant Art Director: Walter Scott *
Set Dresser: Denys Pavitt
Chief Draughtsman: Don Picton *
Planning Draughtsmen: Gerard Beattie *, Terence C. Nolan *
Sketch Artists: Stephen Chapman *, Terry Freeman *, R. Field-smith *
Technical Consultant: David Rawnsley
Publicity: Tom Moore *
Studio: Pinewood Studios
Casting: Dennis Van Thal *
Cast
Sally Ann Howes (Jennifer Peters)
Gordon Jackson (Jock Melville)
Basil Radford (mechanical type)
Naunton Wayne (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 of the ‘Evening Comet’)
Oliver Burt (editor of the ‘Morning Sun’)
Kenneth More (‘Bonzo’, police sergeant)
Humphrey Lestocq (radio commentator)
Fred Essex [country policeman] *
Geoffrey Bellman [lorry driver] *
Harry Hanson [gardener] *
Charles Lamb [Green Line conductor] *
Arthur Lawrence [chauffeur] *
Brian Mcirvine [motor cyclist] *
Grace Rigby [A.T.S. driver] *
Tamara Lees [Carole] *
Sam Kydd [booking office clerk] *
Arthur Lowe [husband in railway carriage] *
Christine Silver [wife in railway carriage] *
Desmond Keith [ticket inspector] *
Fred Griffiths [lorry driver] *
Olive Walter [landlord’s wife] *
Michael Goodliffe [MacPherson] *
Betty Cooper [secretary] *
Alexander Field [taxi driver] *
Denys Val Norton [the boss] *
Michael Balfour [the ‘grabber’, a thief] *
Michael Ward [hairdressers’ manager] *
Stanley Rose [poorter] *
Olwen Brookes [receptionist] *
Patti Morgan [passenger] *
Julian D’albie [airline official] *
Roger Maxwell [1st director] *
Jimmy Rhodes [lorry driver’s mate] *
Freddie Owen [red indian] *
Anne Valery [heroine in cinema sequence] *
Robert Vernon [driver] *
John Boxer [landlord] *
Basil Lord [cockney] *
Margaret Goodman [2nd air hostess] *
Douglas Seale [jeweller’s assistant] *
Stuart Hibberd [announcer] *
Terry Cunnew [nasty little boy] *
William Mervyn [cinema manager] *
Vincent Ball [hero in cinema sequence] *
André Van Gyseghem [originally cast as the editor of the ‘Evening Comet’ but replaced by Percy Walsh]
References
Periodicals
- Film Industry vol.6 no.40 (27 Jan 1949) p.18 – credits
- Film Industry vol.6 no.41 (10 Feb 1949) p.17 – credits
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.16 no.187 (July 1949) p.116 – credits, synopsis, review
- Today’s Cinema vol.72 no.5806 (24 May 1949) p.6 – review
Books
- British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928-1959 by David Quinlan p.249 – credits, synopsis
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.462 – credits
