Friends and Neighbours
1959 British film by Gordon Parry
- 1959 (1959)
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Friends and Neighbours is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Arthur Askey, Megs Jenkins and Peter Illing.[1][2] It was written by Talboth Rothwell and Val Valentine based on the play of the same title by Austin Steele.
Plot
At the height of the Cold War, a working-class British family have to entertain two visitors from Russia.
Cast
- Arthur Askey as Albert Grimshaw
- Megs Jenkins as Lily Grimshaw
- Peter Illing as Nukita
- Tilda Thamar as Olga
- Reginald Beckwith as Wilf Holmes
- June Whitfield as Doris Holmes
- Danny Ross as Sebastian Green
- Catherine Feller as Susan Grimshaw
- Jess Conrad as Buddy Fisher
- George A. Cooper as Wheeler, George
- Max Robertson as TV announcer
- Arthur Howard as Rev. Dobson
- Eynon Evans as Shopkeeper
- Linda Castle as Gloria Stockwell
- Ken Parry as Sid
- Steven Scott as Bus superintendent
- Richard Walter as bus inspector
- Donald Bisset as porter
- Anatole Smirnoff as Russian embassy official
- Laurence Herder as 1st Russian
- Paul Bogdan as 2nd Russian
- Alan Scott as 3rd Russian
- Dudley Jones as Sam
- Robert Checksfield as policeman
- Ruth Kettlewell as woman in club
- Camilla Hasse as 1st girl
- Julia Sutton as 2nd girl
- Pauline Shepherd as 3rd girl
- Judy Cornwell as 4th girl
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Arthur Askey's improvisation atones somewhat for the paucity of wit and ideas in this ingenuous piece of broad knockabout; the targets – pubs and shop hours Act anomalies and cricket – are attacked with zest rather than originality."[3]
References
- ^ "Friends and Neighbours". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
- ^ BFI.org
- ^ "Friends and Neighbours". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 26 (300): 158. 1 January 1959 – via ProQuest.
External links
- Friends and Neighbours at IMDb
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Films directed by Gordon Parry
- Bond Street (1948)
- Third Time Lucky (1949)
- Now Barabbas (1949)
- Golden Arrow (1949)
- Midnight Episode (1950)
- Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951)
- Women of Twilight (1952)
- Innocents in Paris (1953)
- Front Page Story (1954)
- Fast and Loose (1954)
- A Yank in Ermine (1955)
- Sailor Beware! (1956)
- A Touch of the Sun (1956)
- The Surgeon's Knife (1957)
- Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
- The Navy Lark (1959)
- Friends and Neighbours (1959)
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