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{{Short description|1954 British film by Maclean Rogers}}
{{more citations needed|date=May 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Calling All Cars
| image = Calling_All_Cars_film_Opening_titles_(1954).png
| caption = Opening titles
| director = [[Maclean Rogers]]
| producer = [[Edwin J. Fancey|E. J. Fancey]]
| writer = Charles Robinson
| starring = [[Spike Milligan]]<br />[[Cardew Robinson]]<br />John Fitzgerald<br />Adrienne Scott
| music =
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| released = {{Film date|1954}}
| runtime = 43min
| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| language = English
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'''''Calling All Cars''''' is a 1954 short film directed by [[Maclean Rogers]], starring [[Cardew Robinson]] and John Fitzgerald. The film also features [[Spike Milligan]] voicing the thoughts of "Freddie", an old taxicab featured in the film.

The film is a mixture of semi-documentary about the port of Dover and a comedy about two young men who decide to chat up two girls and follow them to Dover in an old taxicab.

==Cast==
* [[Spike Milligan]] as Freddie, the taxi (voice)
* [[Cardew Robinson]] as Reggie Ramsbottom
* John Fitzgerald as Tom Lester
* Adrienne Scott as Beryl Grant
* Pauline Olsen as Marjorie Grant
* [[Margot Bryant]] as Mrs. Flit
* Gloria Brett as Mavis Grant

== Production ==
The two principal actresses stop for tea, en route to Dover, at the former "Fantail" restaurant building in [[Locksbottom]], Kent.

== Critical reception ==
''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "This second feature wavers curiously between farce and sequences which look as though they were devised to publicise the Dover Harbour car terminal. A fairly lengthy section, accompanied by some painfully facetious cross-talk between Reggie and his friend, deals factually with the construction of the terminal; for the rest, the film provides some remarkably unamusing adventures on the Dover Road."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1954 |title=Calling All Cars |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305810262/DAE90F6097F14879PQ/1 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=21 |issue=240 |pages=72 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

Chibnall and McFarlane in ''The British 'B' Film'' called the film: "a poor man's ''[[Genevieve (film)|Genevieve]]'' (1953) filmed at the Dover Harbour car terminal."<ref name="Chibnall">{{Cite book |last=Chibnall |first=Steve |title=''The British 'B' Film'' |last2=McFarlane |first2=Brian |publisher=[[BFI]]/[[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-8445-7319-6 |location=London |pages=119}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|2015327}}
* {{British Comedy Guide|film|calling_all_cars}}
{{Maclean Rogers}}

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