The Pleasure Garden
Year:
1952
Production Country:
Great Britain
A celebration of desire filmed among the ruins of the Crystal Palace terraces. "A mid-summer afternoon daydream, in which a fat fairy godmother liberates the odd lovelorn in a public park to the wrath of a Minister of Public Behaviour.' NB: Shows the Crystal colonnade and the bandstand (both later demolished), the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Memorial, and much of the statuary which was auctioned off five years later.
Cast & credits
Cast
- Harpsichord [Played by] Thomas Goff
- Dr Mary Albion Hattie Jacques
- Bess Diana Maddox
- Sam Kermit Sheets
- Aunt Minerva Jean Anderson
- Colonel Pall K. Gargoyle John Le Mesurier
- Lady Ennui Maxine Audley
- Lord Ennui Derek Hart
- Miss Kellerman Jill Bennett
- Michael-Angelico Lindsay Anderson
- Mr Nurmi John Heawood
- Miss Wheeling Hilary Mackendrick
- Mrs Jennybelle Gladys Spencer
- Doctor Hemingway Gontran Goulden
- Miss Greaves Victoria Grayson
- Mme Paganini Mary Lee Settle
- girl in grass Daphne Hunter
- . Margaret Tate
- . Derek Rosen
Credits
Direction
- Directed by James Broughton
- Assistant Director Kermit Sheets
Production
- a Farallone production Farallone Films
- Flights of Fancy presents Flights of Fancy
- Production Manager Lindsay Anderson
- Unit Assistant Denis Lowson
- Unit Assistant Daphne Hunter
- Unit Assistant Sheila Bone
Writing
- Written by James Broughton
Photography
- Camera Walter Lassally
Editing
- [Assistant Editor] Kermit Sheets
Music
- Music Stanley Bate
Sound
- Sound Editor Peter Price
Consultant
- Production Facilities Basic Films
- Production Facilities Colonial Film Unit
- Production Facilities British Film Institute
- Acknowledgments World Wide Pictures
