Follow That Horse!

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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 onthe 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 byGerald Turney-Smith
Music by Stanley Black
Production
companies
Distributed by Warner-Pathé Distributors (U.K.)
Release date
  • 11 July 1960 (1960-07-11)
(London) (U.K.)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.

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Plot

Various parties including scientists and spies chase after a horse that has eaten a roll of microfilm. [3]

Cast

Critical reception

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]

TV Guide gave the film two out of four stars, calling it "Harmlessly silly." [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Follow That Horse!". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  2. ↑ "Follow That Horse! (1960)". Archived from the original on 18 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Follow That Horse! (1960) - Alan Bromly - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  4. ↑ "Follow That Horse!". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 27 (312): 112. 1 January 1960 – via ProQuest.
  5. ↑ "Follow That Horse!". Kine Weekly . 517 (2750): 29. 16 June 1960 – via ProQuest.
  6. ↑ "Follow That Horse!". TVGuide.com.
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