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The Sandwich Man (Original title)
Dates: 1966 (Copyright), 04 November 1966 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Robert Hartford-Davis

Synopsis: Picaresque comedy of the adventures of a man with a sandwich board in London and those he meets.

Genre:
Comedy
Releases
Date: 1966Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - Sound - MonoRuntime: 95 mins Length: 8550 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (21)
©: Titan International Pictures Limited, Production Company: Titan International Pictures, Presents: The Rank Organisation, Produced by: Peter Newbrook, Production Manager: John Comfort, Assistant Director: Roy Baird, 2nd Assistant Director: Dominic Fulford, Continuity: Betty Harley, Original story and screenplay by: Michael Bentine, Robert Hartford-Davis, Director of Photography: Peter Newbrook, Editor: Peter Taylor, Assistant Editor: Graham Harris, Art Director: Allan Harris, Make-up: Bunty Phillips, Hairdresser: Bobbie Smith, Music Composed and Conducted by: Mike Vickers, Sound Recording: Cyril Collick, Dubbing Editor: Janet Davidson, Sound Dubbing: Ken Cameron
Cast (57)
Michael Bentine (Horace Quilby, the sandwich man), Dora Bryan (Mrs de Vere), Harry H. Corbett (Mack, stage door keeper), Bernard Cribbins (Harold, the photographer), Diana Dors (first Billingsgate lady), Ian Hendry (policeman motor cycle), Stanley Holloway (park gardener), Wilfrid Hyde White (Lord Uffingham), Michael Medwin (sewer man), Ron Moody (rowing coach), Anna Quayle (second Billingsgate lady), Terry Thomas (scout master), Norman Wisdom (boxing vicar), Donald Wolfit (car salesman), David Buck (Steven Mansfield), Suzy Kendall (Sue), Tracey Crisp (the girl in the black plastic mac), Alfie Bass (yachtsman), Leon Thau (Ram), Earl Cameron (Bernard, bus conductor), Hugh Futcher (Gogi), Peter Jones (Manfred the Magnificent, escapologist), John Le Mesurier (Abadiah, religious sandwich man), Robert Lang (waiter), David Lodge (Charlie), Warren Mitchell (Gypsy Sid), Ewen Solon (blind man), Aubrey Morris (Cedric, escapologist), Sydney Tafler (first fish porter), Frank Finlay (second fish porter), Tony Tanner (Nobby, ferry man), Ronnie Stevens (drunk), Fred Emney (Sir Arthur Moleskin), Peter Arne (gentleman in Rolls Royce), Terry Brooks, Michael Chaplin (pavement artist), Joe Gibbons, John Junkin (chauffeur), Jeremy Lloyd (Jeremy, guards officer), Patrick Newell (ferry man), Michael Trubshawe (guards officer), Max Bacon (chef), Gerald Campion (Fred), Roger Delgado (Abdul, carpet seller), Sid Harrison (polar bear man), Max Harrison (kangaroo man), Burt Kwouk (ice cream salesman), Bartlett Mullins, Maureen Pryor, Neil Wilson, Michael Bentine ([Indian jazz club owner]), Skip Martin ([sandwich man]), Sandra Power ([nanny]), Nosher Powell ([Nosher, bus driver]), Michael Balfour, Michael Rothwell, Charles Wade ([workman])