Make Mine a Million (Original title)Look before You Laugh (Working title)
Dates: 1958 (Copyright), 01 March 1959 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Lance Comfort
Synopsis: Comedy about a TV make-up man who is persuaded by a rascally promoter to help him advertise a new soap powder.
Genre: Comedy
Releases
Date: 1959Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 82 mins Length: 7349 FeetDialogue (original): English
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v26 n302 March 1959: no known title]Language: English
In: The Daily Cinema n8116 11 Feb 1959 Page: 8
Title: [The Daily Cinema - n8116 11 Feb 1959: no known title]Language: English
In: Page: 19
Title: [ - : no known title]
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(3)
Film materials(3)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: PolyesterSound: CombinedLength: 7332 FeetStock date: 1966BFI identifier: C-1220981
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-917951
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 7329 FeetStock date: 1958BFI identifier: C-99411
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Dates: 1958 (Copyright), 01 March 1959 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Lance Comfort
Synopsis: Comedy about a TV make-up man who is persuaded by a rascally promoter to help him advertise a new soap powder.
Genre: Comedy
Releases
Date: 1959Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 82 mins Length: 7349 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(25)
©: Jack Hylton Film Productions, A Jack Hylton Film Presentation: Jack Hylton Film Productions, An Elstree Independent Film Production: Elstree Independent Films, Made in association with: British Lion Films, Presents: Jack Hylton, Executive Producer: John Baxter, Produced by: John Baxter, Associate Producer: Barbara K. Emary, Production Manager: Clive Midwinter, Assistant Director: Frank Ernst, Continuity: Yvonne Richards, Screen Play by: Peter Blackmore, Additional Comedy Scenes by: Arthur Askey, Talbot Rothwell, Based on a Story by: Jack Francis, Director of Photography: Arthur Grant, Camera Operator: Desmond Davis, Editor: Peter Pitt, Art Director: Denis Wreford, Wardrobe: Dulcie Midwinter, The Music Composed and Directed by: Stanley Black, Sound Recordist: Red Law, Buster Ambler, Produced at: Shepperton Studios
Cast
(36)
Arthur Askey (Arthur Ashton), Sidney James (Sid Gibson), Dermot Walsh (Martin Russell), Olga Lindo (Mrs Burgess), Clive Morton (National Television director general), Sally Barnes (Sally), George Margo (Sid's bodyguard), Leigh Madison (Diana), Bernard Cribbins (Jack), Kenneth Connor (anxious husband), Martin Benson (commercial television chairman), Lionel Murton (commercial television director), David Nettheim (The Professor), Tom Gill (production supervisor), Bruce Seton (police inspector), Richard Caldicott (assistant director-general), Gillian Lynne (ballerina), The National Ballet (ballet company), The Television Toppers, The Penge Formation Dancers (dancers), Patricia Bredin (herself), Leonard Weir (himself), The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (themselves (pipes and drums of)), Tommy Trinder (himself), Evelyn Laye (herself), Dickie Henderson, Dennis Lotis (himself), Anthea Askey (herself), Raymond Glendenning (himself), Sabrina (herself), Barbara Windsor ([switchboard operator]), Peter Noble ([tv host]), Bill Shine ([outside broadcast producer]), Edwin Richfield ([plain clothes policeman]), Sam Kydd ([mail van robber]), Joan Hurley ([uncredited])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(3)
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v26 n302 March 1959 Page: 34Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v26 n302 March 1959: no known title]Language: English
In: The Daily Cinema n8116 11 Feb 1959 Page: 8
Title: [The Daily Cinema - n8116 11 Feb 1959: no known title]Language: English
In: Page: 19
Title: [ - : no known title]
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(3)
Film materials(3)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: PolyesterSound: CombinedLength: 7332 FeetStock date: 1966BFI identifier: C-1220981
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-917951
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 7329 FeetStock date: 1958BFI identifier: C-99411
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film