Kill or Cure (1962 film)

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Kill or Cure
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Directed byGeorge Pollock
Screenplay byDavid Pursall
Jack Seddon
Story byDavid Pursall
Jack Seddon
Produced byGeorge H. Brown
StarringTerry-Thomas
Eric Sykes
CinematographyGeoffrey Faithfull
Edited byBert Rule
Music byRon Goodwin
Color processBlack and white
Production
companies
George H. Brown Productions
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
Distributed byMetro Goldwyn Mayer
Release dates
  • September 1962 (1962-09) (UK)
  • November 12, 1962 (1962-11-12) (NYC)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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

Reception

According to MGM records the film made a profit of $89,000.[3]

References

  1. ^ " 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).
  2. ^ "Jim Townsend calls the Keeley cure the 'kill or cure.'" The Weekly Gazette And Stockman, Reno, Nevada. Thursday, July 6, 1893.
  3. ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

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