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| Author | R.F. Delderfield |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton (UK) Simon & Schuster (US) |
Publication date | 1961 |
| Media type | |
Stop at a Winner is a 1961 comedy novel by the British writer R.F. Delderfield. [1] It follows the misadventures of two RAF men during the Second World War, the gentle giant Pedlar Pascoe and the conniving Horace Pope, a Londoner who has attempted to avoid conscription.
It was adapted into the British film On the Fiddle directed by Cyril Frankel, with the lead roles played by Sean Connery and Alfred Lynch. [2]
Ronald Frederick Delderfield was an English novelist and dramatist, some of whose works have been adapted for television and film.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1972.
Pixie Day is a tradition that takes place in Ottery St. Mary, England, annually on the Saturday nearest Mid-Summer's Day in June. Dating from 1954, and based on a pamphlet written by R. F. Delderfield for the 500th anniversary of the installation of the bells of the Church of St. Mary, the event commemorates a legend of Ottery St. Mary's 'pixies' being banished from the town to a local cave known as 'Pixies' Parlour'.
New Britain was a minor British right-wing political party founded by Dennis Delderfield in 1976. The party was de-registered in November 2008.
Carry On Sergeant is a 1958 British comedy film about National Service starring William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse and Eric Barker; it is the first in the series of Carry On films, with 31 entries released from 1958 to 1992. The film was based on a play The Bull Boys by R. F. Delderfield and was adapted into a script by Norman Hudis with John Antrobus contributing additional material and replacing the conscripted ballet dancers of the novel into a married couple. It was directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers, a partnership which would last until 1978. Actors in this film, who went on to be part of the regular team in the series, were Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor and Terry Scott. The film was followed by Carry On Nurse 1959.
To Serve Them All My Days is a novel by British author R. F. Delderfield.
On the Fiddle is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Eric Barker, Mike Sarne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kathleen Harrison, Victor Maddern and John Le Mesurier. It was based on the 1961 novel Stop at a Winner by R.F. Delderfield who served in the RAF in World War II.
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Lyttelton KB was a British soldier and politician who served in the British Army.
The Adventures of Ben Gunn is a 1956 adventure novel by the British writer R.F. Delderfield. It is a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
Starwood Capital Group is an investment firm headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida. It is managed by Barry Sternlicht. It was co-founded by Sternlicht and Robert Faith in 1991. In 1993, Faith left Starwood to found Greystar Real Estate Partners.
Worm's Eye View is a 1951 British Technicolor comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Ronald Shiner and Diana Dors. Based on the 1945 play of the same name by R.F. Delderfield, it was produced by Henry Halsted and Byron Films.
The Orchard Walls is a play by the British writer R.F. Delderfield. A drama, it examines the relationship between the daughter of wealthy parents and the car mechanic with whom she falls in love and attempts to elope with. It was first staged at Aldershot in October 1953 and later moved to the St Martin's Theatre in London.
Glad Tidings is a 1953 British comedy film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Barbara Kelly, Raymond Huntley and Ronald Howard. It was based on the play of the same title by R. F. Delderfield and made at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames. The film's art direction was by John Stoll. The backers Eros Films were pleased enough with the film's success to adapt another Delderfield play as Where There's a Will in 1955.
Phyllis Morris was an English dramatist, children's writer and actress. As an interwar actor "she was uncommonly astute in a sequence of character parts".
The Adventures of Ben Gunn is a British television series which originally aired on the BBC in 1958. It was based on R.F. Delderfield's 1956 novel The Adventures of Ben Gunn, written as a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
Cheap Day Return is a 1967 novel by the British writer R.F. Delderfield. A man with the name Kent Stuart, once a small town photographer, returns to his home of Redcliffe Bay, in the West Country, after an absence of thirty years. He left it as a fugitive from what then seemed to all concerned a shameful scandal; he finds it vastly changed and unrecognizable. This Cheap Day Return is his own way of effecting a personal adjustment and coming to terms with the haunting memories of what happened to him here in the year 1932, when he was caught up in a passionate affair with Lorna Morney-Sutcliffe, the wife of the most prominent citizen of Redcliffe Bay. It cost him his youth and happiness; it lost him the girl he was going to marry, Esta Wallace, the local Carnival Queen. His return enables him to reconstruct the whole episode, from the January night it began, to the December night when it ended in tragedy.
Too Few For Drums is a 1964 war adventure novel by the British writer R.F. Delderfield. A small unit of British soldiers get cut off from the rest of their army by French forces during the Peninsular War.
Seven Men of Gascony is a 1949 adventure novel by the British writer R.F. Delderfield. It follows the fate of seven characters through the Napoleonic Wars to the climactic Battle of Waterloo.
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