Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Friends and Neighbours
1959 British film by Gordon Parry From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Friends and Neighbours is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Arthur Askey, Megs Jenkins and Peter Illing.[1][2] It was written by Talboth Rothwell and Val Valentine based on the play of the same title by Austin Steele.
![Thumb](#/media/File:"Friends_and_Neighbours"_(1959).jpg)
Remove ads
Plot
At the height of the Cold War, a working-class British family have to entertain two visitors from Russia.
Cast
- Arthur Askey as Albert Grimshaw
- Megs Jenkins as Lily Grimshaw
- Peter Illing as Nukita
- Tilda Thamar as Olga
- Reginald Beckwith as Wilf Holmes
- June Whitfield as Doris Holmes
- Danny Ross as Sebastian Green
- Catherine Feller as Susan Grimshaw
- Jess Conrad as Buddy Fisher
- George A. Cooper as George Wheeler
- Max Robertson as TV announcer
- Arthur Howard as Rev. Dobson
- Eynon Evans as Shopkeeper
- Linda Castle as Gloria Stockwell
- Ken Parry as Sid
- Steven Scott as bus superintendent
- Richard Walter as bus inspector
- Donald Bisset as porter
- Anatole Smirnoff as Russian embassy official
- Laurence Herder as 1st Russian
- Paul Bogdan as 2nd Russian
- Alan Scott as 3rd Russian
- Dudley Jones as Sam
- Robert Checksfield as policeman
- Ruth Kettlewell as woman in club
- Camilla Hasse as 1st girl
- Julia Sutton as 2nd girl
- Pauline Shepherd as 3rd girl
- Judy Cornwell as 4th girl
Remove ads
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Arthur Askey's improvisation atones somewhat for the paucity of wit and ideas in this ingenuous piece of broad knockabout; the targets – pubs and shop hours Act anomalies and cricket – are attacked with zest rather than originality."[3]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Vigorous farce along old-fashioned lines."[4]
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads