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The Naked Truth (Original title)Your past Is Showing (Alternative title)
Date: 1957 (Copyright)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Mario Zampi

Synopsis: A peer, a TV star, a model and an authoress are among those being blackmailed by the suave publisher of a British scandal magazine. They make various plots to kill him, all of which fail, and finally, after a hectic kidnapping from prison, lose him overboard from an airship.

Genres:
Comedy, Crime

Subject:
Blackmail
Releases
Date: 1957Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 92 mins Length: 8304 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (24)
©: The Rank Organisation Film Productions Ltd, Production Company: Mario Zampi Productions, [Production Company]: Anglofilm, Rank Film Productions, Produced by: Mario Zampi, Associate Producer: Giulio Zampi, Production Manager: John Workman, Assistant Director: Eddie Pike, Continuity: Kay Rawlings, Casting Director: Dorothy Holloway, Scenario Editor: Kathleen Connors, Original Story and Screenplay by: Michael Pertwee, Director of Photography: R. Stanley Pavey, Camera Operator: Gerry Turpin, Film Editor: Bill Lewthwaite, Art Director: Ivan King, Assistant Art Director: Geoffrey Tozer, Make-up: Stuart Freeborn, Hairdresser: Pearl Tipaldi, Music Composed and Conducted by: Stanley Black, Sound Recordist: Fred Ryan, Dubbing Editor: Malcolm Cooke, Studio: Walton Studios
Cast (31)
Terry-Thomas (Lord Henry Mayley), Peter Sellers (Sonny MacGregor), Peggy Mount (Flora Ransom), Shirley Eaton (Melissa Right), Dennis Price (Nigel Dennis), Georgina Cookson (Lady Lucy Mayley), Joan Sims (Ethel Ransom), Miles Malleson (The Reverend Cedric Bastable), Kenneth Griffith (porter), Moultrie Kelsall (Mactavish), Bill Edwards (Bill Murphy), Wally Patch (Fred, paunchy old man), Henry Hewitt (gunsmith), John Stuart (police inspector), David Lodge (Constable Johnson), Joan Hurley (authoress), Peter Noble (TV announcer), Victor Rietti (doctor), Austin Trevor ([minister with heart attack]), Michael Ripper ([J.E. Freeman, greengrocer]), George Benson ([photographer]), Gibb McLaughlin ([old man in TV show audience]), Wilfrid Lawson ([Sergeant Walter Rumbold]), Edie Martin, Mario Fabrizi ([autograph hunter]), Ronald Adam ([chemist]), Andy Ho ([Chinese man in pub]), Jerold Wells ([1st Irishman]), Michael Brennan ([2nd Irishman]), Gillian Watt, Marianne Stone ([uncredited])