The Naked Truth (Original title)Your past Is Showing (Alternative title)
Date: 1957 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Mario Zampi
Synopsis: A peer, a TV star, a model and an authoress are among those being blackmailed by the suave publisher of a British scandal magazine. They make various plots to kill him, all of which fail, and finally, after a hectic kidnapping from prison, lose him overboard from an airship.
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Subject: Blackmail
Releases
Date: 1957Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 92 mins Length: 8304 FeetDialogue (original): English
Title: The Laserphile: Summer Hits and MissesAuthor: DURSIN, Andy Article type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v25 n288 January 1958 Page: 7
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v25 n288 January 1958: no known title]Language: English
In: Variety 11 Dec 1957
Title: [Variety - 11 Dec 1957: no known title]Language: English
In: The Daily Cinema n7909 21 Nov 1957 Page: 3
Title: [The Daily Cinema - n7909 21 Nov 1957: no known title]Language: English
In: Page: 18
Title: [ - : no known title]
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(4)
Accessible materials to view(1)
Description: 35mm BW Television PrintBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 8284 FeetStock date: 1976BFI identifier: C-1221049
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Film materials(4)
Description: 35mm BW Television PrintBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 8284 FeetStock date: 1976BFI identifier: C-1221049
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: CTASound: MuteLength: 3347 FeetBFI identifier: C-709265
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 8320 FeetBFI identifier: C-113725
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: CTASound: SoundLength: 3368 FeetBFI identifier: C-709266
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Date: 1957 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Mario Zampi
Synopsis: A peer, a TV star, a model and an authoress are among those being blackmailed by the suave publisher of a British scandal magazine. They make various plots to kill him, all of which fail, and finally, after a hectic kidnapping from prison, lose him overboard from an airship.
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Subject: Blackmail
Releases
Date: 1957Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 92 mins Length: 8304 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(24)
©: The Rank Organisation Film Productions Ltd, Production Company: Mario Zampi Productions, [Production Company]: Anglofilm, Rank Film Productions, Produced by: Mario Zampi, Associate Producer: Giulio Zampi, Production Manager: John Workman, Assistant Director: Eddie Pike, Continuity: Kay Rawlings, Casting Director: Dorothy Holloway, Scenario Editor: Kathleen Connors, Original Story and Screenplay by: Michael Pertwee, Director of Photography: R. Stanley Pavey, Camera Operator: Gerry Turpin, Film Editor: Bill Lewthwaite, Art Director: Ivan King, Assistant Art Director: Geoffrey Tozer, Make-up: Stuart Freeborn, Hairdresser: Pearl Tipaldi, Music Composed and Conducted by: Stanley Black, Sound Recordist: Fred Ryan, Dubbing Editor: Malcolm Cooke, Studio: Walton Studios
Cast
(31)
Terry-Thomas (Lord Henry Mayley), Peter Sellers (Sonny MacGregor), Peggy Mount (Flora Ransom), Shirley Eaton (Melissa Right), Dennis Price (Nigel Dennis), Georgina Cookson (Lady Lucy Mayley), Joan Sims (Ethel Ransom), Miles Malleson (The Reverend Cedric Bastable), Kenneth Griffith (porter), Moultrie Kelsall (Mactavish), Bill Edwards (Bill Murphy), Wally Patch (Fred, paunchy old man), Henry Hewitt (gunsmith), John Stuart (police inspector), David Lodge (Constable Johnson), Joan Hurley (authoress), Peter Noble (TV announcer), Victor Rietti (doctor), Austin Trevor ([minister with heart attack]), Michael Ripper ([J.E. Freeman, greengrocer]), George Benson ([photographer]), Gibb McLaughlin ([old man in TV show audience]), Wilfrid Lawson ([Sergeant Walter Rumbold]), Edie Martin, Mario Fabrizi ([autograph hunter]), Ronald Adam ([chemist]), Andy Ho ([Chinese man in pub]), Jerold Wells ([1st Irishman]), Michael Brennan ([2nd Irishman]), Gillian Watt, Marianne Stone ([uncredited])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(5)
In: Film Score Monthly v10 n4 Jul/Aug 2005 Page: 62Title: The Laserphile: Summer Hits and MissesAuthor: DURSIN, Andy Article type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v25 n288 January 1958 Page: 7
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v25 n288 January 1958: no known title]Language: English
In: Variety 11 Dec 1957
Title: [Variety - 11 Dec 1957: no known title]Language: English
In: The Daily Cinema n7909 21 Nov 1957 Page: 3
Title: [The Daily Cinema - n7909 21 Nov 1957: no known title]Language: English
In: Page: 18
Title: [ - : no known title]
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(4)
Accessible materials to view(1)
Description: 35mm BW Television PrintBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 8284 FeetStock date: 1976BFI identifier: C-1221049
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Film materials(4)
Description: 35mm BW Television PrintBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 8284 FeetStock date: 1976BFI identifier: C-1221049
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: CTASound: MuteLength: 3347 FeetBFI identifier: C-709265
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 8320 FeetBFI identifier: C-113725
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: CTASound: SoundLength: 3368 FeetBFI identifier: C-709266
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film