On the Beat (Original title)
Dates: 1962 (Copyright), 14 April 1963 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Robert Asher
Synopsis: Comedy about a man who longs to be a policeman, although he ends up in a hairdresser's, he exposes the owner to Scotland Yard.
Genres: Comedy, Police drama
Subject: Police
Releases
Date: 1962Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 105 mins Length: 9450 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1962 (Copyright), 14 April 1963 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Robert Asher
Synopsis: Comedy about a man who longs to be a policeman, although he ends up in a hairdresser's, he exposes the owner to Scotland Yard.
Genres: Comedy, Police drama
Subject: Police
Releases
Date: 1962Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 105 mins Length: 9450 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: The Rank Organisation Film Productions Ltd, Presents: The Rank Organisation, Executive Producer: Earl St. John, Produced by: Hugh Stewart, Production Manager: L.C. Rudkin, Assistant Director: Anthony Waye, Continuity: Splinters Deason, Screenplay by: Norman Wisdom, Jack Davies, [Screenplay] With: Eddie Leslie, Photography by: Geoffrey Faithfull, Camera Operator: Jack Lowin, Editor: Bill Lewthwaite, Art Director: Bert Davey, Set Dresser: Arthur Taksen, [Construction Manager]: Ronnie Udell, Costume Designer: Yvonne Caffin, Make Up: Jim Hydes, Hairdressing: Ivy Emmerton, Salon Advisers: André Bernard, Music by: Philip Green, "On The Beat" played by: The Clyde Valley Stompers, Sound Recordist: Peter Davies, C. Le Messurier, Sound Editor: Jim Sibley, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast
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Norman Wisdom (Norman Pitkin/Giulio Napolitani), Jennifer Jayne (Rosanna Guardia), Raymond Huntley (Sir Ronald Ackroyd), David Lodge (Superintendent Cecil Hobson), Esma Cannon (Mrs. Stammers), Eric Barker (police doctor), Eleanor Summerfield (Sgt. Lucilla Wilkins), Ronnie Stevens (Oberon, the hairdresser), Terence Alexander (Chief Superintendent Bert Belcher), Maurice Kaufmann (Vince), Dilys Laye (American tourist), George Pastell (Manzini), Jack Watson (desk sergeant), Campbell Singer (Mr. Bollington), Lionel Murton (man handcuffed on tube train), Robert Rietti (Italian lawyer), Marjie Lawrence (crying lady), Peggyann Clifford (Giulio's mother), Jean Aubrey (Lady Hinchingford), Monte Landis (Mr. Bassett), Mario Fabrizi (newspaper seller), Alfred Burke (Trigger O'Flynn), Larry Taylor ([Trigger O'Flynn's henchman]), Julian Orchard ([wedding photographer]), Tutte Lemkow ([billposter in underground]), John Blythe ([chauffeur]), Cyril Chamberlain ([café proprietor]), Fred Griffiths ([taxi man]), Lisa Page, Heather Downham ([receptionist]), Fredric Abbott, Stanley Morgan ([])