The Chiltern Hundreds
Year:
1949
Production Country:
Great Britain
Comedy of a Viscount who stands for Parliament as a Tory and fails: he stands again as a Socialist, but his butler gets in as a Tory.
Cast & credits
Cast
- Beecham Cecil Parker
- Lord Lister A.E. Mathews
- Tony, Viscount Pym David Tomlinson
- Lady Lister Marjorie Fielding
- Lady Caroline Joyce Carey
- Mr. Brown Gerald Andersen
- June Helen Backlin
- Bessie Lana Morris
- Cleghorn Tom Macaulay
- colonel Charles Cullum
- reporter Bill Shine
- adjutant Anthony Steel
- [1st guardsman] Desmond Llewelyn
- [2nd guardsman] John Wynn
- [sergeant] Robert Cawdron
- [driver] Dervis Ward
- [sentry] Cyril Chamberlain
- [sergeant] Michael Brennan
- [editor] Laurence Naismith
- [labour agent] Richard Dunn
- [curate] Richard Wattis
- [mother] Peggy Ann Clifford
Credits
Direction
- Director John Paddy Carstairs
- Assistant Director [1st] Peter Bolton
- [Assistant Director (2nd)] Alec Gibb
- Continuity Olga Brook
Production
- Production Company Two Cities Films
- Producer George H. Brown
- Production Manager Frank Sherwin Green
- [Production Secretary] Gladys Goldsmith
- Studio Denham Studios
Casting
- [Casting] Maude Spector
- [Crowd Casting] William Fleming
Writing
- Screenplay William Douglas-home
- Screenplay Patrick Kirwan
- Original play William Douglas-home
Photography
- Director of Photography Jack Hildyard
- Camera Operator H.A.R. Thomson
- [Focus Puller] Reginald Morris
Stills
- [Stills Photography] George Cannon
Editing
- Editor George Clark
- [Assistant Editor] Anne V. Coates
Design
- Art Director Ralph Brinton
- Assistant Art Director Edward Marshall
- Set Dresser Colleen Browning
- [Buyer] John Brown
Costumes
- [Dress Designer] Eleanor Abbey
- [Wardrobe Supervisor] Fred Pridmore
- [Wardrobe Mistress] Mrs W. Jackson
- [Wardrobe Assistant] Bert Brown
- [Wardrobe Assistant] Doris Corby
Make-up
- Make-up Tony Sforzini
- [Make-up Assistant] Geoffrey Rodway
- [Make-up Assistant] Sid Turner
- [Make-up Assistant] Ernest Westo
- Hair Vivienne Walker
- [Assistant Hair] Betty Dymore
- [Assistant Hair] Nora Ridgeway
Music
- Music Benjamin Frankel
- Conductor Muir Mathieson
Sound
- Sound Recording John W. Mitchell
- Sound Recording Desmond Dew
- [Boom Operator] David Hildyard
- [Assistant Boom Operator] Gus Lloyd
- [Sound Maintenance] Jack Goodwin
- [Asst Dubbing Mixer - Foreign Version] Peter T. Davies
Publicity
- [Publicity Manager] Ken Green
- [Publicity] Gavin Macfadyen