Over the Odds

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Over the Odds
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Directed by Michael Forlong
Written byErnest Player
Rex Arundel
Produced byAlec Snowden
Starring Frances Cuka
Marjorie Rhodes
Glenn Melvyn
Cyril Smith
Esma Cannon
CinematographyNorman Warwick
Edited by Reginald Beck
Production
company
Jermyn Films
Distributed by Rank Film Distributors
Release date
  • November 1961 (1961-11)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Over the Odds is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Michael Forlong and starring Marjorie Rhodes, Glenn Melvyn, Cyril Smith, Esma Cannon, Thora Hird and Wilfrid Lawson. [1] [2] The screenplay was by Ernest Player and Rex Arundel, based on a play by Arundel. A bookmaker struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law. [3] Filmink called it "a cheap independent comedy that made little noise." [4]

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Cast

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A noisy, feeble farce which exploits the old mother-in-law theme twofold, with Marjorie Rhodes as number one, solid and belligerent, and Thora Hird as number two, violently vocal. Glenn Melvyn and Cyril Smith battle with ingenuous, obvious material, but Wilfrid Lawson comes off the best in a characteristic performance as the drunken father." [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Over the Odds". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  2. ↑ "Over the Odds". IMDb .
  3. ↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | OVER THE ODDS (1961)". Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2009.
  4. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (11 July 2025). "Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation, 1961". Filmink. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
  5. ↑ "Over the Odds". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 28 (324): 171. 1 January 1961. ProQuest   1305821807.


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