Don't Panic Chaps!
Don't Panic Chaps! | |
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Directed by | George Pollock |
Produced by | Teddy Baird |
Written by |
Michael Corston Jack Davies Ronald Holroyd |
Starring |
Dennis Price George Cole Thorley Walters |
Music by | Philip Green |
Cinematography | Arthur Graham |
Edited by | Harry Aldous |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures Corporation (UK) |
Release dates | November 1959 (UK) |
Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | UK |
Language | English |
Don't Panic Chaps! is a 1959 British comedy film directed by George Pollock and starring Dennis Price, George Cole, Thorley Walters and Terence Alexander.[1] [2] The film was produced by Teddy Baird for Act Films Ltd.[3] Originally called Carry On Chaps, the title was changed following the success of the "Carry On" series. [4]
It was based on a radio play and was made for ₤75,000.[5]
Plot
During WW II, a pair of observation teams, German and British, are left on a remote Adriatic island, then forgotten. The two sides call a truce and live harmoniously; that is until beautiful Elsa is cast ashore and war breaks out anew.
Cast
- Krisling - Dennis Price
- Finch - George Cole
- Brown - Thorley Walters
- Elsa - Nadja Regin
- Ackroyd - Harry Fowler
- Bolter - Percy Herbert
- Meister - George Murcell
- Mortimer - Nicholas Phipps
- Babbington - Terence Alexander
- Schmidt - Gertan Klauber
- Voss - Thomas Foulkes
References
- ↑ Don't Panic Chaps! at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ "Don't Panic Chaps (1959) - BFI". BFI.
- ↑ Action! Fifty Years in the Life of a Union. Published: 1983 (UK). Publisher: ACTT. ISBN 0 9508993 0 5. ACT Films Limited - Ralph Bond p81 (producer listed as Teddy Baird)
- ↑ "Don't Panic Chaps!". TV Guide.
- ↑ Tom Johnson and Deborah Del Vecchio, Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography, McFarland, 1996 p171
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