The Wrong Arm of the Law (Original title)
Dates: 1962 (Copyright), 22 April 1963 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Cliff Owen
Synopsis: The London gangs are controlled on Welfare State principles by Pearly Gates, who is also a couturier. They run into opposition from three Australian crooks who, informed by Pearly's girl friend, Valerie, let the English plan and execute a robbery and then drive up in a squad car, arrest them and take the booty. Pearly negotiates a twenty-four hour truce with Scotland Yard to catch them. They fail to do so and organise another robbery with police co-operation. After much bungling the police and rival gangs converge on an airfield, Pearly escapes with Valerie and Inspector Parker, handcuffed to the money box, to the South Seas.
Genres: Comedy, Police drama
Subjects: Gangsters, Organised crime
Releases
Date: 1962Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 94 mins Length: 8534 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1962 (Copyright), 22 April 1963 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Cliff Owen
Synopsis: The London gangs are controlled on Welfare State principles by Pearly Gates, who is also a couturier. They run into opposition from three Australian crooks who, informed by Pearly's girl friend, Valerie, let the English plan and execute a robbery and then drive up in a squad car, arrest them and take the booty. Pearly negotiates a twenty-four hour truce with Scotland Yard to catch them. They fail to do so and organise another robbery with police co-operation. After much bungling the police and rival gangs converge on an airfield, Pearly escapes with Valerie and Inspector Parker, handcuffed to the money box, to the South Seas.
Genres: Comedy, Police drama
Subjects: Gangsters, Organised crime
Releases
Date: 1962Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 94 mins Length: 8534 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©/Production Company: Robert Velaise Productions, Presents: Romulus Films, [Production] in asssociation with: M. Smedley Aston, Executive Producer: Robert Velaise, Produced by: Aubrey Baring, Associate Producer: Cecil F. Ford, [Production Secretary]: Golda Offenheim, Assistant Director: Roy Baird, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: John Stoneham, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Brian Lipman, Ross Devenish, Continuity: Angela Martelli, [Casting]: Dorothy Holloway, Written by: Ray Galton, Written by: Alan Simpson, John Antrobus, From a Screenplay by: John Warren, Len Heath, Original Story by: Ivor Jay, William Whistance Smith, Director of Photography: Ernest Steward, Camera Operator: Godfrey Godar, [Focus puller]: David Kelly, [Stills]: Ray Hearne, [Back Projection]: Charles Staffell, Film Editor: Tristam Cones, [Assistant Editor]: Graham Harris, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Edward Rooth, Art Director: Harry White, [Assistant Art Director]: Jean Peyre, [Draughtsman]: Nigel Curzon, David Mintey, [Scenic Artist]: Peter Melrose, Wardrobe: Jimmy Smith, Make-up: Stuart Freeborn, Hair Stylist: Eileen Bates, Titles Designed by: Robert Ellis, Music Composed by: Richard Rodney Bennett, [Music] Conducted by: John Hollingsworth, Sound Recordist: Bill Howell, Sound System: RCA, [Boom Operator]: Tony Cripps, Re-recording: Anvil Films, Sound Editor: Allan Morrison, [Assistant Sound Editor]: Wally Nelson, [Publicity]: Maureen Gregson, Made at: Beaconsfield Studios
Cast
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Peter Sellers (Pearly Gates), Lionel Jeffries (Inspector Fred 'Nosey' Parker), Bernard Cribbins (Nervous O'Toole), Davy Kaye (Trainer King), Nanette Newman (Valerie), Bill Kerr (Jack Coombes), John Le Mesurier (assistant police commissioner), Irene Browne (dowager), Martin Boddey (Superintendent J.S. Forest), Arthur Mullard (Brassknuckles), Ed Devereaux (Bluey May), Reg Lye (Reg Denton), Dermot Kelly (Misery Martin), Graham Stark (Sid Cooper), Vanda Godsell (Annette), Tutte Lemkow (Siggy Schmoltz), Barry Keegan (Alf), Cardew Robinson ([mailman]), John Junkin ([Maurice]), Marianne Stone ([woman in front row at the meeting]), Dennis Price ([Educated Ernest]), Dick Emery ([man in flat 307]), Gerald Sim ([airfield official]), Michael Caine ([])