Stop Press Girl (1949)

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Sally Ann Howes

Jennifer Peters

Gordon Jackson

Jock Melville

Basil Radford

The Mechanical Type

Naunton Wayne

The Mechanical Type

James Robertson Justice

Mr. Peters

Sonia Holm

Angela Carew

Nigel Buchanan

Roy Fairfax

Joyce Barbour

Miss Peters

Campbell Cotts

Mr. Fairfax

Cyril Chamberlain

Johnnie

Julia Lang

Carole

Percy Walsh

Editor, Evening Comet

Oliver Burt

Editor, Morning Sun

Kenneth More

Police Sergeant

Humphrey Lestocq

Radio Commentator

Michael Balfour

Crook
(uncredited)

Vincent Ball

Hero in cinema sequence
(uncredited)

Geoffrey Bellman

Lorry Driver
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The final pairing of Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, which had started with The Lady Vanishes (1938).

Goofs
The aircraft used is shown in exterior shots to be a civil version of the Halifax bomber, but the lavish interior of the fuselage appears to be much too wide for that type, and the big square windows shown in interior shots are not present on the exterior. In fact, the aircraft shown in exteriors, G-AKEC, appears to have been used for freight, not for passengers.

Quotes
Jennifer Peters: Why do you Scotsmen leave your country if you're so fond of it.
Jock Melville: Someone's got to civilise the world. Surely you realise Scotland's chief exports are brains and whiskey.

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Featured review

8/10

Delightful little charmer

This searing kitchensink drama exposes the harsh dark, underbelly of postwar Britain.

No I was just pulling your leg, this lightweight but amusing romantic comedy has a newspaper reporter involved with a woman that is cursed with an affliction she stops all forms of mechanical machinery and is capable of telling the time without the aid of a clock. Henceforth she may be not all that marriageable for a newspaper man.

A set of rural English characters make up this whimsical film, the type of gentle B-grade farce that Britain used to be known for making before the 'orrible 60s and 70s.