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| director = [[George Pollock (director)|George Pollock]] | | director = [[George Pollock (director)|George Pollock]] | ||
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According to MGM records the film made a profit of $89,000.<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.</ref> | According to MGM records the film made a profit of $89,000.<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.</ref> | ||
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Kill or Cure | |
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Directed by | George Pollock |
Screenplay by | David Pursall Jack Seddon |
Story by | David Pursall Jack Seddon |
Produced by | George H. Brown |
Starring | Terry-Thomas Eric Sykes |
Cinematography | Geoffrey Faithfull |
Edited by | Bert Rule |
Music by | Ron Goodwin |
Color process | Black and white |
Production companies | George H. Brown Productions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios |
Distributed by | Metro Goldwyn Mayer |
Release dates |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Kill or Cure is a 1962 British comedy film directed by George Pollock and starring Terry-Thomas and Eric Sykes.[1][2]
Plot
Mr Barker Rynde comes to a country hotel to assist a wealthy widow. He endures a nature cure diet and exercises under Rumbelow. When the widow is poisoned, Barker Rynde and Rumbelow join forces to win a reward offered by the hotel manager Crossley. Crossley is next murdered but this leads to the original criminal. The reward however has been inherited by the widow's Pekinese.
Cast
- Terry-Thomas as Capt. J. (Jeroboam) Barker-Rynde PI
- Eric Sykes as Rumbelow
- Dennis Price as Dr. Julian Crossley
- Lionel Jeffries as Det. Insp. Hook
- Moira Redmond as Francis Roitman, Clifford's Secretary
- Katya Douglas as Rita - Green Glades Nurse
- David Lodge as Richards - Male Nurse
- Ronnie Barker as Burton - Hook's Assistant
- Hazel Terry as Mrs. Rachel Crossley
- Derren Nesbitt as Roger Forrester (as Derrin Nesbitt)
- Harry Locke as Riggins
- Arthur Howard as Johnson - Green Glades Desk Clerk
- Tristram Jellinek as Asst. Clerk
- Peter Butterworth as Green Glades Barman
- Patricia Hayes as Lily the Waitress
- Anna Russell as Mrs. Margaret Clifford
- Mandy as Horatio
- Sidney Vivian as Fred - Barber-Rynde's Assistant (as Sidney Vyvyan)
- Julian Orchard as P.C. Lofthouse
Reception
According to MGM records the film made a profit of $89,000.[3]
References
- ^ " I had come across the American slang term "kill-or-cure" for "Keeley cure..." Elliott C. Lasser, M.D., in Gallbladder Mucosa in Cholecystography (JAMA, 1965;193(6):427-431. doi:10.1001/jama.1965.03090060017003).
- ^ "Jim Townsend calls the Keeley cure the 'kill or cure.'" The Weekly Gazette And Stockman, Reno, Nevada. Thursday, July 6, 1893.
- ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
External links
- Kill or Cure at IMDb
- Kill or Cure at the British Film Institute
- Kill or Cure at the TCM Movie Database
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- Articles with short description
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- 1962 films
- Films directed by George Pollock
- 1962 comedy films
- British comedy films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- Films scored by Ron Goodwin
- 1960s English-language films
- 1960s British films
- British crime comedy films