Top Billed Cast

Dinah Sheridan
Wendy McKim
John Gregson
Alan McKim
Kay Kendall
Rosalind Peters
Kenneth More
Ambrose Claverhouse
Geoffrey Keen
Policeman
Reginald Beckwith
J. C. Callahan
Arthur Wontner
Old Gentleman
Joyce Grenfell
Hotel Proprietress
Leslie Mitchell
Himself, Newsreel Commentator
Michael Balfour
Trumpeter (Uncredited)
Stanley Escane
Film Cameraman (Uncredited)
Fred Griffiths
Ice Cream Seller (Uncredited)
Charles Lamb
Publican (Uncredited)
Arthur Lovegrove
Hotel Doorman (Uncredited)
Edie Martin
Guest (Uncredited)
Edward Malin
Spectator (Uncredited)
Michael Medwin
Father To Be (Uncredited)
Harold Siddons
Policeman (Uncredited)
Fred Nicholas
Police Constable (Uncredited)
Joey Carr
Mechanic Joey (Uncredited)
Patrick Westwood
Mechanic (Uncredited)
Lesley Dudley
Little Girl (Uncredited)
Christopher Warbey
Little Boy (Uncredited)
Richard Duke
Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Ernest Blyth
Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Aileen Lewis
Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Martin Lyder
Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Frank Schock
Onlooker (Uncredited)
Jim Tyson
Onlooker (Uncredited)
Daniel Brown
Onlooker (Uncredited)
Billy Wilmot
Onlooker (Uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Apr 04 2022

Very much in the spirit of the "Ealing Comedies", this is a simple and engaging story of two chaps - "Alan" (John Gregson) and "Ambrose" (Kenneth More) who bet each other the princely sum (in 1953) of £100 on which of their vintage cars can race the 50-odd miles from London to Brighton quickest. Dragging their reluctant partners "Wendy" (Dinah Sheridan) and "Rosalind" (Kay Kendall) along too, we embark of a fun series of escapades as they test the limits of their friendship, the patience of the police (a nice effort from Geoffrey Keen) and their respective engineering. The photography is colour...