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{{Infobox film
| name = The Chiltern Hundreds
| image = "The_Chiltern_Hundreds"_(film).jpg
| caption = Section of British 6-sheet poster by [[Eric Pulford]]
| director = [[John Paddy Carstairs]]
| producer = [[George H. Brown (producer)|George H. Brown]]
| screenplay = [[William Douglas-Home]]<br>[[Patrick Kirwan]]
| based_on = the play ''[[The Chiltern Hundreds (play)|The Chiltern Hundreds]]'' by William Douglas-Home
| starring = {{ubl|[[Cecil Parker]]|[[A. E. Matthews]]|[[David Tomlinson]]|[[Lana Morris]]}}
| music = {{ubl|[[Benjamin Frankel]]|[[Muir Mathieson]]}}
| cinematography = [[Jack Hildyard]]
| editing = George Clark
| studio = George H. Brown Productions (for) [[Two Cities Films]]
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors]] (UK)
| released = {{film date|1949|9|27|df=y}} (London) (UK)
| runtime = 84 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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'''''The Chiltern Hundreds''''' (released in the U.S. as '''''The Amazing Mr. Beecham''''') is a 1949 British politically-themed [[comedy film]] directed by [[John Paddy Carstairs]], adapting [[William Douglas Home]]'s 1947 [[The Chiltern Hundreds (play)|play of the same name]] and starring [[Lana Morris]], [[David Tomlinson]] and [[Cecil Parker]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041245/|title=The Amazing Mr. Beecham (1949)|author=r-winbow|date=1 December 1949|work=IMDb|accessdate=26 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b70034008|title=The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)|website=BFI}}</ref>

==Synopsis==

Viscount Pym ([[David Tomlinson]]) – whilst on [[National Service]] – gets leave from the [[British Army]] on the pretext of standing for [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] candidate in his home [[constituency]], held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancée June Farrell (Helen Backlin) while she is still in England and before she has to return home to America. His master plan backfires when he finds himself swept into the election campaign and beaten by the more politically experienced Mr Cleghorn ([[Tom Macaulay]]), the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] candidate.

After losing the election, his family take the news calmly, but his fiancée is mortified, and he must now devise a plan to win her back. When Cleghorn is made a [[Peerage of the United Kingdom|peer]], Viscount Pym stands again for the newly vacant seat, however this time he fights the campaign as a Socialist candidate but is beaten once again, this time by the family butler Beecham ([[Cecil Parker]]) – a steadfast Conservative.

(The title of the original play and the British title of this film refers to a Parliamentary convention which applies when a Member of Parliament wishes to stand down. Since MPs cannot technically resign, they apply for the [[Chiltern Hundreds]] instead, which is an 'office of profit under the Crown'.)

==Cast==
{{cast listing|
* [[Cecil Parker]] as Beecham (the butler)
* [[A. E. Matthews]] as Earl of Lister
* [[David Tomlinson]] as Tony, Viscount Pym
* [[Lana Morris]] as Bessie Sykes (the maid)
* [[Marjorie Fielding]] as The Countess of Lister
* [[Tom Macaulay]] as Cleghorn
* [[Joyce Carey]] as Lady Caroline (Lord Lister's sister)
* Helen Backlin as June Farrell
* Gerald Anderson as Mr. Brown
* [[Michael Brennan (actor)|Michael Brennan]] as Sergeant
* [[Robert Cawdron]] as Sergeant
* [[Cyril Chamberlain]] as Sentry
* [[Peggy Ann Clifford]] as Mother
* [[Charles Cullum]] as Colonel
* [[Richard Dunn (actor)|Richard Dunn]] as Labour agent
* [[Ambrosine Phillpotts]] as Lady Fielding
* [[Bill Shine (actor)|Bill Shine]] as Reporter
* [[Joan Hopkins]] as Flower Show Attendee
* [[Anthony Steel (actor)|Anthony Steel]] as Adjutant
* Dervis Ward as Driver
}}

==Production==
The film was made for £109,000.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163291344 |title=Hustling Showman Of British Films. |newspaper=[[The Newcastle Sun|The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954)]] |location=NSW |date=19 July 1954 |accessdate=31 October 2015 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49704733 |title=THE STARRY WAY |newspaper=[[The Courier-mail]] |issue=4075 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=17 December 1949 |accessdate=24 May 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Anthony Steel has one of his earliest roles in the film.<ref name="vagg">{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/the-emasculation-of-anthony-steel-a-cold-streak-saga/|title=The Emasculation of Anthony Steel: A Cold Streak Saga
|date=September 23, 2020}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
[[Bosley Crowther]] in ''[[The New York Times]]'' noted "a somewhat slapdash lot of fooling. It rambles all over the place and is perilously uneven in its humorous attack. But it does offer several stinging sideswipes at the "plutocrats, peers and parasites," and kids class distinctions and traditions in a pleasantly good-natured way. In the title role of the butler, Cecil Parker—he who played the pompous colonel in the last episode of "[[Quartet (1948 film)|Quartet]]"—is delightfully foolish and mannered, but A. E. Matthews as the butler's ranking boss, a beautifully addle-brained old codger, runs away with the show. Mr. Matthews' illustration of the complacence of an impoverished earl may not be wholly consistent but it glistens brightly in spots. David Tomlinson also does nicely as the thoroughly light-weight young lord and Lana Morris, Tom Macaulay and Marjorie Fielding are amusing in other roles."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/reviews/movies|title=Movie Reviews|work=The New York Times |date=12 March 2021|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0041245}}

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