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| Directed by | George Pollock |
| Written by | John Paddy Carstairs Additional dialogue by John Junkin Terry Nation |
| Based on | play "The Chigwell Chicken" by A.P. Dearsley |
| Produced by | William J. Gell |
| Starring | Brian Rix William Hartnell Tommy Cooper |
| Cinematography | Stanley Pavey |
| Edited by | Lito Carruthers |
| Music by | Philip Green |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Eros Films |
Release date | February 1960 |
Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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
- Brian Rix as Dickie "Dreadnought" Marchant
- William Hartnell as Walter "Wally" Burton
- Leo Franklyn as Rev. Sydney Mullett
- Tommy Cooper as Horace Hawkins
- Vera Day as Cynthia Tripp
- Sid James as Sammy Gatt
- Miles Malleson as Bishop
- Arthur Mullard as Tubby
- Renée Houston as Mildred Pomphret
- Dick Bentley as George Nibbs
- John Robinson as Archdeacon Humphrey Pomphret
- Terry Scott as Police Constable
- Shirley Anne Field as Iris Collins
- Ronald Adam as Trout
- Tony Wright as Percy "Perce" Gibbons
- Larry Taylor as Chappy Tuck
- Rupert Evans as Butch
- Tommy Duggan as Mike
- George Leech as Jake
- Lindsay Hooper as Bert Bender
- Jean Clark as manicurist
- Jennifer Phipps as secretary
- Jack Taylor as M.C.
- Micky Wood as referee
- Bob Simmons as Perce's opponent
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
- ↑ "And the Same to You". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ↑ Billings, Josh (15 December 1960). "It's Britain 1, 2, 3 again in the 1960 box office stakes". Kine Weekly. p. 8.
- ↑ "And the Same to You". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 27 (312): 49. 1 January 1960 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ "And the Same to You". Kine Weekly. 514 (2735): 28. 3 March 1960 – via ProQuest.
External links
- And the Same to You at IMDb
- And the Same to You then-and-now location photographs at ReelStreets