Follow That Horse! | |
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Directed by | Alan Bromly |
Screenplay by | Alfred Shaughnessy William Douglas-Home (additional scenes) Howard Mason (adapted by) |
Based on | the novel Photo Finish by Howard Mason |
Produced by | Thomas Clyde |
Starring | David Tomlinson Cecil Parker Richard Wattis Dora Bryan Mary Peach |
Cinematography | Norman Warwick |
Edited by | Gerald Turney-Smith |
Music by | Stanley Black |
Production companies | Associated British Picture Corporation Cavalcade Pictures |
Distributed by | Warner-Pathé Distributors (U.K.) |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Follow That Horse! is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Alan Bromly and starring David Tomlinson, Cecil Parker, Richard Wattis, Mary Peach and Dora Bryan. [1] [2] The screenplay was by Alfred Shaughnessy and William Douglas-Home based on the 1954 novel Photo Finish by Howard Mason.
Various parties including scientists and spies chase after a horse that has eaten a roll of microfilm. [3]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A standard, old-fashioned British farce is coaxed along by the subtly timed performances of David Tomlinson, Cecil Parker and Richard Wattis. Briskness and gusto stiffen much that is limp in the situations and offset the undistinguished humour, but only just." [4]
Kine Weekly wrote: "The picture lacks the astringent wit of recent comedies that have cashed in by ridiculing Establishments, but nevertheless has its amusing moments. ... The scenes in Whitehall and Cherwell's laboratories contain some bright satire, but the intestinal humour, arising from the fight against time for the possession of the horse before nature does her work, creates the loudest chuckles." [5]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Vigorous playing by cast of scene-stealers just get antiquated farce by. " [6]
TV Guide gave the film two out of four stars, calling it "Harmlessly silly." [7]
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