Fast and Loose (1954 film)
- Ben Travers
- A.R. Rawlinson
1925 play
by Ben Travers
- Stanley Holloway
- Kay Kendall
- Brian Reece
- Jack Asher
- Reginald H. Morris
company
- 15 March 1954 (1954-03-15)
Fast and Loose is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Stanley Holloway, Kay Kendall and Brian Reece. The film was shot at Pinewood Studios near London with sets designed by the art director John Howell. It was based on the play A Cuckoo in the Nest by Ben Travers, the first of his Aldwych farces, which had previously been adapted as a 1933 film of the same title.
Plot
An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.[1]
Cast
- Stanley Holloway as Major George Crabb
- Kay Kendall as Carol Hankin
- Brian Reece as Peter Wickham
- Charles Victor as Lumper
- June Thorburn as Barbara 'Babsie' Wickham
- Reginald Beckwith as Reverend Tripp-Johnson
- Vida Hope as Gladys
- Joan Young as Mrs. Gullett, Inn Manageress
- Fabia Drake as Mrs Crabb
- Dora Bryan as Mary Rawlings, the maid
- Aubrey Mather as Noony
- Toke Townley as Alfred
- Alexander Gauge as Hankin
- Eliot Makeham as Railway porter
- John Warren as Chauffeur
Critical reception
TV Guide called the film an "unfunny remake of A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)."[2]
References
External links
- Fast and Loose at IMDb
- Fast and Loose at AllMovie
- Fast and Loose at the TCM Movie Database
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