Friends and Neighbours
{{Short description|1959 British film by Gordon Parry}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Friends and Neighbours
| image = "Friends_and_Neighbours"_(1959).jpg
| caption = Original UK quad poster
| director = Gordon Parry
| producer = Bertram Ostrer
| writer = Talbot Rothwell
Val Valentine
Austin Steele (play)
| starring = Arthur Askey
Megs Jenkins
Peter Illing
| music = Philip Green
| cinematography = Arthur Grant
| editing = Bill Lenny
| released = {{Film date|1959|11}}
| runtime = 79 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
}}
Friends and Neighbours is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Arthur Askey, Megs Jenkins and Peter Illing.{{Cite web |title=Friends and Neighbours |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150041344 |access-date=15 July 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114183411/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/34013 BFI.org] It was written by Talboth Rothwell and Val Valentine based on the play of the same title by Austin Steele.
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
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."{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1959 |title=Friends and Neighbours |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305824156/96AE9AB0B2D540D2PQ/1 |journal=The Monthly Film Bulletin |volume=26 |issue=300 |pages=158 |via=ProQuest}}
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Vigorous farce along old-fashioned lines."{{Cite book |last=Quinlan |first=David |title=British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 |publisher=B.T. Batsford Ltd. |year=1984 |isbn=0-7134-1874-5 |location=London |pages=312}}
References
External links
- {{IMDb title|0052826}}
{{Gordon Parry}}
Category:Films directed by Gordon Parry
Category:British films based on plays
Category:1950s English-language films
Category:Films scored by Philip Green
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