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Smashing Time (Original title)
Dates: 1967 (Copyright), 11 February 1968 (Release)

Countries: United Kingdom, USA

Director: Desmond Davis

Synopsis: Broad comedy of two country girls who come to London because of tales of glamour, only to run into a host of misadventures.

Genre:
Comedy
Credits (34)
Production Company: Partisan Film Productions, Production Company: Selmur Productions Inc., Executive Producer: Selig J. Seligman, Producer: Roy Millichip, Producer: Carlo Ponti, Production Manager: Bruce Sharman, Production Accountant: Stan Tucker, Production Assistant: Jane Moscroft, Assistant Director: Jake Wright, Script Supervisor: Betty Harley, Casting: Paul Lee Lander, Screenplay: George Melly, Director of Photography: Manny Wynn, Camera Operator: Ray Parslow, Editor: Barrie Vince, Art Director: Ken Bridgeman, 'Jabberwock' Sculpture by: Bruce Lacey, Properties: John Leuenberger, Costumes: Ruth Myers, Special Wigs for Miss Redgrave by: Evansky, Make-up: Richard Mills, Hair: Stephanie Kaye, Titles: Trog, [Processed by]: Humphries Film Laboratories, Music Composed and Conducted by: John Addison, "Skip Bifferty" Music by: Victor Smith, Additional Lyrics: George Melly, John Addison, Orchestrations: Raymond Jones, Orchestrations: Charles Blackwell, Sound Recording: Robin Gregory, Dubbing Editor: Alan Pattillo, Dubbing Mixer: Wally Milner
Cast (56)
Lynn Redgrave (Yvonne), Rita Tushingham (Brenda), Michael York (Tom Wabe), Anna Quayle (Charlotte Brillig), Irene Handl (Mrs Gimble), Ian Carmichael (Bobby Mome-Roth), Jeremy Lloyd (Jeremy Tove), Toni Palmer (Toni), George A. Cooper (Irishman), Peter Jones (Dominic), Arthur Mullard (café boss), Ronnie Stevens (1st waiter), John Clive (Sweenie Todd manager), Mike Lennox (disc jockey), Sydney Bromley (tramp), David Lodge (caretaker), Amy Dalby (demolished old lady), Murray Melvin (1st exquisite), Bruce Lacey (Clive Sword), Cardew Robinson (custard pie vicar), Ray Mackin (2nd waiter), Tomorrow (The Snarks), Bart Allison, Gabor Baraker, Eve Belton, Kate Binchy, Yuri Borienko, Teresa Buckingham (.), Veronica Carlson (film actress at premiere), Golda Casimer, Richard Coe (.), Julian Curry (partygoer at Post Office tower), Paul Danquah (2nd exquisite), Desmond Davies (.), Jonathan Elsom (posh boyfriend at pie shop), Olivia Farjeon, Tom Gill, Danny Green, Luanshya Greer (.), Geoffrey Hughes (workman in café), Brenda Kempner, Leigh Kostelanetz (.), Sam Kydd (workman in café), Valerie Leon (Tove's secretary), Arthur Lovegrove (workman in café), George O'Gorman (.), Stuart Saunders (fat man at art show), Frank Sieman, Will Stamp, Bernard Stone (.), Adele Strong (gossiping customer), Michael Ward (outdoor antiques dealer), Jerold Wells (workman in café), Susan Whitman (.), Anthony Rayner ([uncredited]), Howard Marion-Crawford ([hall porter])