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Upstairs and Downstairs (Original title)
Date: 28 September 1959 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Ralph Thomas

Synopsis: Comedy about the problems involved finding a domestic home help.

Genre:
Comedy

Subject:
Domestic staff
Releases
Date: 1959Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 101 mins Length: 9100 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Rank Film Distributors

Credits (27)
Production Company: Rank Film Productions, closing logo: B&D Film Corporation, Executive Producer: Earl St. John, Produced by: Betty E. Box, Production Manager: Charles Orme, Production Controller for Pinewood Studios: Arthur Alcott, Assistant Director: Geoffrey Haine, Continuity: Gladys Goldsmith, Screenplay by: Frank Harvey, Adapted from the novel by: Ronald Scott Thorn, Director of Photography: Ernest Steward, Camera Operator: James Bawden, Editor: Alfred Roome, Art Director: Maurice Carter, Set Dresser: Vernon Dixon, Costume Designer: Joan Ellacott, Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway, Make-up: Basil Newall, Hairdressing: Stella Rivers, Music by: Philip Green, 'Upstairs and Downstairs' Lyric by: Sonny Miller, Sound Recordist: John W. Mitchell, Sound Recordist: Bill Daniels, Sound Editor: Harry Miller, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast (29)
Michael Craig (Richard Barry), Anne Heywood (Kate Barry), Myléne Demongeot (Ingrid), James Robertson Justice (Mansfield), Sidney James (Police Constable Edwards), Reginald Beckwith (vicar on train), Jean Cadell (1st old lady), Claudia Cardinale (Maria), Gaylord Cavallaro, Cyril Chamberlain (train guard), Barbara Everest (2nd old lady), Margalo Gillmore, Irene Handl (woman in employment agency), Joan Hickson (Rosemary), Dilys Laye (employment agent), Harry Locke (train ticket inspector), Daniel Massey (Wesley), William Mervyn (bank manager), Nora Nicholson (Edith Farringdon), Nicholas Parsons, Nicholas Phipps, Eric Pohlmann (Mario), Madge Ryan (policewoman), Joan Sims (Blodwen), Barbara Steele (Mary), Joseph Tomelty (Arthur Farringdon), Austin Willis, Burt Kwouk (Chinese restaurant proprietor), Sam Kydd (chauffeur)