Over the Odds: Difference between revisions

From The Goon Show Depository

No edit summary
No edit summary
 
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Infobox film
{{Infobox film
| name          = Over the Odds
| name          = Over the Odds
| image          =
| image          = Over the Odds.jpg
| caption        =
| caption        = Over the Odds lobby card
| director      = [[Michael Forlong]]
| director      = [[Michael Forlong]]
| producer      = Alec Snowden
| producer      = Alec Snowden

Latest revision as of 10:29, 14 September 2024

Over the Odds
Over the Odds.jpg
Over the Odds lobby card
Directed byMichael Forlong
Written byErnest Player
Rex Arundel
Produced byAlec Snowden
StarringFrances Cuka
Marjorie Rhodes
Glenn Melvyn
Cyril Smith
Esma Cannon
CinematographyNorman Warwick
Edited byReginald Beck
Production
company
Jermyn Films
Distributed byRank Film Distributors
Release date
  • November 1961 (1961-11)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Over the Odds is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Michael Forlong and starring Marjorie Rhodes, Glenn Melvyn, Cyril Smith, Esma Cannon and Thora Hird and Wilfrid Lawson.[1][2] The screenplay concerns a bookmaker who struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law.[3] It was based on a play by Rex Arundel.

Cast

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A noisy, feeble farce which exploits the old mother-in-law theme twofold, with Marjorie Rhodes as number one, solid and belligerent, and Thora Hird as number two, violently vocal. Glenn Melvyn and Cyril Smith battle with ingenuous, obvious material, but Wilfrid Lawson comes off the best in a characteristic performance as the drunken father."[4]

References

  1. ^ "Over the Odds". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Over the Odds". IMDb.
  3. ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | OVER THE ODDS (1961)". Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2009.
  4. ^ "Over the Odds". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 28 (324): 171. 1 January 1961 – via ProQuest.

External links