Operation Cupid

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Operation Cupid
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Original British quad poster
Directed by Charles Saunders
Written byJack Taylor
Brock Williams
Produced by Guido Coen
Starring Charles Farrell
Avice Landone
Wallas Eaton
Harold Goodwin
Cinematography Walter J. Harvey
Edited by Peter Pitt
Music by Malcolm Lockyer
Production
company
Distributed by J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
Release date
  • April 1960 (1960-04)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Operation Cupid is a 1960 British second feature ('B') [1] comedy film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Charles Farrell, Avice Landone and Wallas Eaton. [2] [3]

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Plot

A gang of criminals win a marriage agency during a card game and plan to use it to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their gang to an extremely wealthy heiress. [4]

Cast

Production

It was made at Twickenham Studios in west London. [3]

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This artless comedy opens promisingly, but poverty of invention, uneven direction and weak scripting – not to mention song and dance padding – quickly tax the efforts of the cast. The net result fails to score on any level." [5]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Weak comedy wastes good idea." [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 128. ISBN   978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ↑ "Operation Cupid". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Operation Cupid (1960)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 February 2020.
  4. ↑ "Operation Cupid (1959) - Henry Cass, Charles Saunders | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
  5. ↑ "Operation Cupid". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 27 (312): 71. 1 January 1960 – via ProQuest.
  6. ↑ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 357. ISBN   0-7134-1874-5.


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