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- BFI identifier35133
- Date1964-02-16 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisMrs. Cragg and her neighbours in Pitt Street are cleaners in big City office blocks. Mrs Cragg also 'does' for Colonel Whitforth, an impecunious gambler. Early one morning she is under the desk when James Ryder arrives and discusses a potential take-over. She salvages a cigar for the Colonel, wrapping it in Ryder's discarded telegram. He uses both to advantage and shares the profits with her. A speculating company, Ladezudu, is formed with Whitforth as the expert and the ladies providing the information from their offices. Finally they invest their capital in irish pigs but swine fever eliminates both their capital. Meanwhile Ryder is negotiating the redevelopment of Pitt Street, his own home ground, with a time limit for demolition to start. The ladies and their friends gang up, confounding the contractors and the police. Whitforth arrives with heartening news of their fortunes. Ladezudu invite Ryder to join the board and share their redevelopment scheme. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirector: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Production Company: Fanfare Films
Producer: George H. Brown
view all - CastPeggy Mount (Mrs. Cragg)
Robert Morley (Col. Whitforth)
Harry H. Corbett (James Ryder)
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Title
Ladies Who Do (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/B94B-2267-1F7A-9F30-D3F9-SCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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35mm Duplicating Positive - Safety - Combined - Master
35mm Negative - Acetate - Sound - Master
35mm Original Negative - Acetate - Mute - Master
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Idea by John Bignell - SCR-11034
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-35133
Small pressbook held. For examples of programmes see CINEMA EPHEMERA: REGIONS (Ramsgate Dreamland and Odeon).
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Work - 35133 - 1964-02-16 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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