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Asking for Trouble (Original title)
Date: 1942 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Oswald Mitchell

Synopsis: As a sideline Dick Smith, fishmonger, has taken up book-making, but the law court and six months in prison put an end to illustrious career.

Genre:
Comedy

Subjects:
Betting shops, Gambling
Releases
Date: 1942Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 81 mins Length: 7251 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (16)
Production Company: British National Films, Producer: Wallace Orton, Production Assistant: Pat Ellis, Assistant Director: Phil Rigal, Screenplay: Oswald Mitchell, Screenplay: Con West, Camera Operator: Arthur Grant, Supervising Editor: Jack Harris, Editor: Fergus McDonell, Art Director: Holmes Paul, Wardrobe: Maude Churchill, Make-up: George Claff, Music Director: Kennedy Russell, Sound Supervisor: Harold King, Sound Recording: Jim Morris
Cast (12)
Max Miller (Dick), Carole Lynne (Jane), Mark Lester (General Smythe), Wilfrid Hyde White (Pettifer), Billy Percy (George), Eleanor Hallam (Margarita), Aubrey Mallalieu (General Fortesque), Kenneth Kove (Captain Fortesque), Chick Elliott (Mandy Lou), Esma Cannon (Ada), Lesley Osmond (Paulette), Raymond Glendenning (Commentator)