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{{Short description|1956 British film by Maclean Rogers}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Not So Dusty
| image =File:Not So Dusty (1956 film).jpg
| caption =
| director = [[Maclean Rogers]]
| producer = {{ubl|[[Bill Luckwell]]|Derek Winn}}
| writer = Maclean Rogers
| starring = {{ubl|[[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill Owen]]|[[Leslie Dwyer]]|[[Joy Nichols]]|[[Wally Patch]]}}
| music = [[Wilfred Burns]]
| cinematography = [[James Wilson (cinematographer)|James Wilson]]
| editing = [[Sam Simmonds (film editor)|Sam Simmonds]]
| studio = [[Bill Luckwell Productions]]
| distributor = [[Eros Films]]
| released = {{Film date|1956|02}}
| runtime = 78 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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'''''Not So Dusty''''' is a 1956 black and white British [[B movie|'B' movie]]<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=52}}</ref> [[comedy film]] directed by [[Maclean Rogers]] and starring [[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill Owen]], [[Leslie Dwyer]] and [[Joy Nichols]].<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Not So Dusty |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150035596 |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref>

==Plot==
Two London dustmen ([[waste collector|rubbish collectors]]) Dusty and Nobby, serving the borough of [[Twickenham]], spot a couple in an apartment block stealing a book from the woman's sister. The crime is temporarily delayed by the maid. Dusty and Nobby find a diamond brooch in the bin outside the property. They enter the building to return it just as the owner, Miss Duncan, returns. This allows Dusty to meet Lobelia, the maid. He asks her out to the pictures.

Instead of cash, Miss Duncan gives them a book on the philosophy of [[Diogenes]] as a reward. This is the same book which the couple were trying to steal. An American is seeking the book offering $5000 (£500).

Nobby's son Derek takes it to a bookseller as part of a bundle of old books which need to be in groups of six. Thinking it is a valuable book, Nobby and Dusty break into the bookseller's to retrieve it.

They have to thwart the attempts of some criminals to con them out of it. Mrs Lincoln eventually finds them and gives them £500 for the book. However, it is revealed that the American seeks volume 1 and they had volume 2 which is worthless.

Volume 2 is tracked and they rush to the airport to get the American the copy just in time. He writes a cheque for more money.

==Cast==
* [[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill Owen]] as "Dusty" Grey
* [[Joy Nichols]] as Lobelia, Miss Duncan's maid
* [[Leslie Dwyer]] as Nobby Clarke
* [[Harold Berens]] as Driver
* [[Roddy Hughes]] as J.C. Layton
* [[Ellen Pollock]] as Agatha Lincoln
* [[Bill Shine (actor)|Bill Shine]] as Alistair Lincoln
* [[Wally Patch]] as Burrows the concierge at Miss Duncan's home
* [[Dandy Nichols]] as Mrs. Clarke, Nobby's wife
* [[William Simons]] as Derek Clarke
* [[Totti Truman Taylor]] as Charlotte Duncan
* Tony Quinn as Elmer J. Cobb
* Diana Chapman as receptionist
* Scott Sanders as Lancelot Barnaby Pennington the bookseller
* Michael McKeag as 2nd actor
* Alexis de Galien as head waiter
* George Roderick as 1st waiter
* John Moore as 2nd waiter

==Production==
The film was made at [[Twickenham Studios]] and [[Location shooting|on location]] around London. It is a remake of a 1936 film [[Not So Dusty (1936 film)|of the same title]] which was also directed by Maclean Rogers. [[Wally Patch]], who had written and starred in the earlier film, appears in a small role in the remake.

== Critical reception ==
''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "Rather laboured comedy, depressingly laced with topical gags. Joy Nichols sings pleasantly. Id"<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1956 |title=Not So Dusty |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305827495/422D27774B31466DPQ/2 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=23 |issue=264 |pages=33 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

In ''British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959'' [[David Quinlan (film critic)|David Quinlan]] rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Remake of 1936 film of thr same title, brought up to date in rather laboured fashion."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Quinlan |first=David |title=British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 |publisher=[[Batsford Books|B.T. Batsford Ltd.]] |year=1984 |isbn=0-7134-1874-5 |location=London |pages=355}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0197734|Not So Dusty}}
*[https://www.reelstreets.com/films/not-so-dusty/ ''Not So Dusty''] then-and-now location photographs at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]
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