Trouble with Eve
Appearance
Trouble with Eve | |
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Directed by | Francis Searle |
Screenplay by | Brock Williams |
Produced by | Tom Blakeley |
Starring | Robert Urquhart Hy Hazell Garry Marsh |
Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey (as James Harvey) |
Edited by | Eric Boyd-Perkins |
Music by | Wilfred Burns |
Production company | A Mancunian Butcher Production |
Distributed by | Butcher's Film Service (UK) |
Release date | March 1960 (UK) |
Running time | 65 min. |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Trouble with Eve is a low budget 1960 British comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Hy Hazell, Robert Urquhart and Garry Marsh.[1] It was based on the play Widows are Dangerous by June Garland.[2] The film was released in the U.S. in 1964 as In Trouble With Eve.[3]
Plot
In the sleepy English village of Warlock, Louise Kingston (Hy Hazell) converts her cottage into "The Willow Tree", a commercial tearoom. However, scandal ensues when the local inspector gets caught with his pants down, and the tea room is rumoured to be a brothel.
Cast
- Hy Hazell - Louise Kingston
- Robert Urquhart - Bryan Maitland
- Sally Smith - Eve Kingston
- Garry Marsh - Roland Axbridge
- Vera Day - Daisy Freeman
- Grace Denbigh Russell - Mrs Mordant
- Brenda Hogan - Angie Kingston Rigby
- Denis Shaw - George Rigby
- Iris Vandeleur - Mrs Biddle
- Frank Atkinson - Cabdriver
- David Graham - Car Driver
- Tony Quinn - Bellchambers
- Bruce Seton - Colonel Digby-Phillpotts
- Kim Shelley - Mrs Digby-Phillpotts
- Bill Shine (actor) - Artist
Critical reception
TV Guide called it "a barely average British comedy."[4]
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