Folly to Be Wise (Original title)
Dates: 1952 (Copyright), 19 January 1953 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Frank Launder
Synopsis: Comedy. Captain Paris, the new chaplain on an English army base, is responsible for the soldiers' entertainment, which has lately been woeful. On hearing of an artist, George Prout, and his wife Angela, who live locally and who have a professor friend visiting (who is a regular on a BBC 'brains trust' broadcast), Paris decides to invite them to take part in a similar panel question-and-answer evening alongside some local personages (a viscountess, Lady Dodd, a doctor and the Labour MP). Unfortunately, the Prouts are going through a difficult phase, with the professor attempting to woo Angela away from George, and a question (asked by Paris's secretary, Jessie) about whether marriage is a good idea becomes becomes uncomfortably personal, and leads to some explosive emotion and wild behaviour.
Genre: Comedy
Subjects: Military camps, Troop concerts, Artists, Intelligence
Releases
Date: 1952Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 91 mins Length: 8195 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1952 (Copyright), 19 January 1953 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Frank Launder
Synopsis: Comedy. Captain Paris, the new chaplain on an English army base, is responsible for the soldiers' entertainment, which has lately been woeful. On hearing of an artist, George Prout, and his wife Angela, who live locally and who have a professor friend visiting (who is a regular on a BBC 'brains trust' broadcast), Paris decides to invite them to take part in a similar panel question-and-answer evening alongside some local personages (a viscountess, Lady Dodd, a doctor and the Labour MP). Unfortunately, the Prouts are going through a difficult phase, with the professor attempting to woo Angela away from George, and a question (asked by Paris's secretary, Jessie) about whether marriage is a good idea becomes becomes uncomfortably personal, and leads to some explosive emotion and wild behaviour.
Genre: Comedy
Subjects: Military camps, Troop concerts, Artists, Intelligence
Releases
Date: 1952Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 91 mins Length: 8195 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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[Production Company]: London Film Productions, Produced in association with: British Lion Film Corporation, Producer: Frank Launder, Producer: Sidney Gilliat, Production Manager: Jack Swinburne, Assistant Director: Sydney Streeter, Continuity: Olga Brook, Screenplay: Frank Launder, Screenplay: John Dighton, From the play 'It Depends What You Mean' by: James Bridie, Director of Photography: Jack Hildyard, Camera Operator: Peter Newbrook, Editor: Thelma Connell, Assistant Editor: Tony Lower, Art Director: Arthur Lawson, Miss Allan's costumes designed by: Anna Duse, Wardrobe: Ivy Baker, Make-up: Michael Morris, Hairdressing: Ann Fordyce, Music: Temple Abady, Music played by: The New Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Royalton Kisch, Sound Supervisor: John Cox, Sound Recording: Peter Handford, Sound Recording: Red Law, Sound Editor: Bert Rule, Studio: Shepperton Studios
Cast
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Alastair Sim (Captain William Paris), Roland Culver (George Prout), Elizabeth Allan (Angela Prout), Colin Gordon (Professor James F.X. Mutch), Martita Hunt (Viscountess Dodd, 'Lady Dodd'), Janet Brown (Private Jessie Killegrew), Peter Martyn (Walter, Paris's batman), Miles Malleson (Dr Hector McAdam), Edward Chapman (Joseph Byres, M.P., 'Joe'), Cyril Chamberlain (drill sergeant), Michael Ripper (drill corporal), Robin Bailey (intellectual corporal), Michael Kelly (staff sergeant), Charlotte Mitchum ([barmaid]), Leslie Weston ([landlord]), Harold Lang, Patrick Westwood, Gilbert Harrison ([soldier in pub]), Jo Powell, Catherine Finn, Enid McCall, Maria Charles ([W.R.A.C.]), Martin Boddey ([visiting brigadier]), George Cole ([appreciative soldier in Brains Trust audience])