Friends and Neighbours
Appearance
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Directed by | Gordon Parry |
Written by | Talbot Rothwell Val Valentine Austin Steele (play) |
Produced by | Bertram Ostrer |
Starring | Arthur Askey Megs Jenkins Peter Illing |
Cinematography | Arthur Grant |
Edited by | Bill Lenny |
Music by | Philip Green |
Release date | 1959 |
Running time | 79 mins. |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Friends and Neighbours is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Arthur Askey, Megs Jenkins and Peter Illing.[1]
Plot
At the height of the Cold War, a working-class British family have to entertain two visitors from Russia.
Cast
- Arthur Askey ... Albert Grimshaw
- Megs Jenkins ... Lily Grimshaw
- Peter Illing ... Nukita
- Tilda Thamar ... Olga
- Reginald Beckwith ... Wilf Holmes
- June Whitfield ... Doris Holmes
- Danny Ross ... Sebastian Green
- Catherine Feller ... Susan Grimshaw
- Jess Conrad ... Buddy Fisher
- George A. Cooper ... Wheeler, George
- Max Robertson ... TV announcer
- Arthur Howard ... Rev. Dobson
- Eynon Evans ... Shopkeeper
- Linda Castle ... Gloria Stockwell
- Ken Parry ... Sid
- Steven Scott ... Bus superintendent
- Richard Walter ... Bus inspector
- Donald Bisset ... Porter
- Anatole Smirnoff ... Russian embassy official
- Laurence Herder ... 1st Russian
- Paul Bogdan ... 2nd Russian
- Alan Scott ... 3rd Russian
- Dudley Jones ... Sam
- Robert Checksfield ... Policeman
- Ruth Kettlewell ... Woman in club
- Camilla Hasse ... 1st Girl
- Julia Sutton ... 2nd Girl
- Pauline Shepherd ... 3rd Girl
- Judy Cornwell ... 4th Girl