And the Same to You
Directed byGeorge Pollock
Written byJohn Paddy Carstairs
Additional dialogue by John Junkin
Terry Nation
Based onplay "The Chigwell Chicken" by A.P. Dearsley
Produced byWilliam J. Gell
StarringBrian Rix
William Hartnell
Tommy Cooper
CinematographyStanley Pavey
Edited byLito Carruthers
Music byPhilip Green
Production
company
Distributed byEros Films
Release date
February 1960
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

And the Same to You is a 1960 British boxing-themed comedy film directed by George Pollock and starring Brian Rix and William Hartnell.[1] It is based on a stage farce by A.P. Dearsley.

Premise

Stuck with the nickname "Dreadnought", Dickie Marchant feels he has no choice but to pursue a career as a boxer. However, to mollify his uncle, Marchant pretends to be the soul of religiosity, while his tough-talking manager, Walter "Wally" Burton, poses as a man of the cloth.

Cast

Reception

Box office

The film and Inn for Trouble were voted by Kine Weekly as the best British box office double bill for the year 1960.[2]

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The nearer the action gets to stage farce, with its disguises, mistaken identities, outraged clergymen and rapid exits and entrances, the better it hangs together and the more amusing it becomes. The humour early on is obvious and silly, but the long climax is well-constructed and put across with a speed and verve often denied to more original comedy scripts. If the film is not quite as funny as it might be, perhaps that is because not all the players enter into the slightly pre-war spirit of the piece as wholeheartedly as Leo Franklyn and William Hartnell, or give as much to small parts as Sidney James and Tommy Cooper."[3]

Kine Weekly wrote: "The picture has a poke at the cloth and the fight racket, but its sallies are never malicious. Vera Day is a perky Cynthia, William Hartnell definitely has his moments as Wally, and Brian Rix seldom misses a trick as battling parson-to-be Dickie. Tommy Cooper, Leo Franklyn, Dick Bentley and guest artist Sidney James also seize whatever opportunities come their way. The settings are quite good, but the director sometimes takes too long breaking from clinches."[4]

References

  1. "And the Same to You". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  2. Billings, Josh (15 December 1960). "It's Britain 1, 2, 3 again in the 1960 box office stakes". Kine Weekly. p. 8.
  3. "And the Same to You". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 27 (312): 49. 1 January 1960 via ProQuest.
  4. "And the Same to You". Kine Weekly. 514 (2735): 28. 3 March 1960 via ProQuest.
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