| Follow That Man | |
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| Directed by | Jerome Epstein |
| Written by | Jerome Epstein |
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| Music by | Edwin Astley |
Production company | Epiney |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Follow That Man is a 1961 British comedy film directed and written by Jerome Epstein and starring Sydney Chaplin, Dawn Addams and Elspeth March. [1] [2] [3]
When conman Eddie Miller hears that there is a missing heir to a Swedish fortune, he adopts the identity of the lost son and inveigles his way into the family. When the widowed mother discovers his true identity, she has already become so besotted with him that she wants to marry him. At the altar, Miller arranges for a friend to impersonate the real vicar, and escapes marriage.
The film's sets were designed by the art director William Hutchinson. [4]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The comedy idea of an aging merry widow who falls for her "son" might have been ghoulishly amusing under the care of a Wilder or a Lubitsch. As it is, the laboured treatment, the tedious hamming and clowning and the ersatz staging merely accentuate the film's prevailing unpleasantness." [5]
Kine Weekly wrote: "Romantic Comedy, 'embellished' by slapstick. ... The tale is supposed to unfold in Sweden, but its characters are, with few exceptions, borrowed from time-honoured English stage farce. An occasional laugh is raised when it finally descends to knockabout, but transparent preliminaries will make other than undemanding yawn. ... The picture has a bright Charleston sequence and a hectic finale, but otherwise 'bounds' from one tired cliche to another with somnambulistic predictability. Sydney Chaplin works hard as Eddie, but is definitely not in his father's class, Dawn Addams makes a very skittish Janet, and Elspeth March 'hams' as the ample Astrid. The rest are merely stooges. Its staging is by no means cramped, but unmistakably ersatz." [6]