A Hole Lot of Trouble

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A Hole Lot of Trouble
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Directed by Francis Searle
Written byIan Flintoff
Story byFrancis Searle
Produced byFrancis Searle
Robert Gallico
John Hogarth
Starring Arthur Lowe
Tim Barrett
Victor Maddern
Bill Maynard
CinematographyTerry Maher
Edited by Peter Mayhew
Music byPeter Jeffries
Production
company
Chairene Productions
Distributed by Monarch Film Corporation (UK)
Release date
  • 31 January 1971 (1971-01-31)(UK)
Running time
27 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Hole Lot of Trouble is a 1971 British short comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Arthur Lowe, Victor Maddern and Bill Maynard. [1] [2] [3] It was written by Ian Flintoff. It charts the efforts of a group of workmen trying to dig a hole. [4]

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A Hole Lot of Trouble is one of a series of 30-minute films directed by Searle in the "Screen Miniatures" series, which he made between 1966 and 1972. Others in the series are Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down (1966), The Pale Faced Girl (1968), Talk of the Devil (1968), Gold Is Where You Find It (1968), It All Goes to Show (1969) and A Couple of Beauties (1972). [5]

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Home media

It was released on DVD in the UK in 2015. [6]

References

  1. "A Hole Lot of Trouble". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  2. "A Hole Lot of Trouble (1969)". Archived from the original on 7 February 2019.
  3. "A Hole Lot of Trouble - Film from RadioTimes". RadioTimes.
  4. "A HOLE LOT OF TROUBLE - British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk.[ dead link ]
  5. Mayne, Laura (13 March 2017). "An Uncompetitive Cinema: The British Fiction Short Film in the 1960s". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 38 (1). Taylor & Francis.
  6. "Melody Club / A Hole Lot Of Trouble / Gold Is Where You Find It - £10.99 : Renown Films". www.renownfilms.co.uk.[ permanent dead link ]