It's Not Cricket

It's Not Cricket - 1949 | 71 mins | Comedy | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Roy Rich and Alfred Roome.
Producer: Betty E. Box.
Script: Gerard Bryant, Lyn Lockwood and Bernard McNabb.
Cinematography: Gordon Lang.
Film Editing: Esmond Seal.
Art Direction: George Provis and A.R. Yarrow.
Costume Design: Yvonne Caffin.
Makeup Department: W.T. Partleton.
Sound Department: H.L. Bird, B.C. Sewell and Sid Wiles
Original Music: Arthur Wilkinson.

The Cast

Basil Radford - Major Bright
Naunton Wayne - Captain Early
Susan Shaw - Primrose Brown
Maurice Denham - Otto Fisch
Nigel Buchanan - Gerald Lawson
Alan Wheatley - Felix
Jane Carr - Virginia Briscoe
Patrick Waddington - Valentine Christmas
Edward Lexy - Brigadier Falcon

Plot Synopsis

For accidentally letting a dangerous Nazi, Otto (Maurice Denham), escape, Major Bright (Basil Redford) and Captain Early (Naunton Wayne) are cashiered out of the army. Together, they set up a private detective agency, but the errant Nazi still dogs their tracks on every case. He finally involves them in a barmy cricket match where the ball contains a stolen diamond.

The film has its moments of humour and revives memories of Radford and Wayne as the cricket-obsessed travellers in Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes (1938).