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Helter Skelter
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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A detective gets invoIved with a weaIthy sociaIite who can't seem to stop hiccupping. This earIy outing by director Ralph Thomas is a madcap romantic comedy about a sociaIite with hiccups, featuring a number of surreal vignettes and cameo appearances. One of the final fiIms produced by Gainsborough Pictures. Susan Graham (CaroI Marsh), a 19-year-oId heiress suffers an attack of hiccups while quarrelling with BBC radio star Nick Martin (David TomIinson) at the Magnolia CIub. It s Susan s birthday and her two guardians Ernest Bennett (Mervyn Johns) and Major BasiI BeagIe (Peter Haddon), and two nephews Spencer Stone and Humphrey Beagle, take her for an evening out in London when she is struck down by recurring hiccups. Her guardians consult Dr. Jekyll (Wilfrid Hyde-White) who diagnoses that a severe fright may cure Susan of her affIiction, and so Mr Bennett arranges a night in a haunted house possessed by the spirits of Charles Il and Cromwell. Also, look out for Bright & EarIy the cricket mad pairing pIayed by Naunton Wayne & Basil Radford (Charters & Caldicott). |
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