Directed by:
Charles CrichtonScreenplay:
Harry KurnitzCinematography:
Douglas SlocombeComposer:
Benjamin FrankelCast:
David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Herbert Lom, Gordon Jackson, Felix Aylmer, Hugh McDermott, June Clyde, Theodore Bikel, Michael Ward, Humphrey Bogart (more)Plots(1)
Rex Allerton (David Niven) allows himself to be the prize in a "Love Lottery" organised by the head of a gambling syndicate (Herbert Lom – The Ladykillers). Rex's adoring female fans buy thousands of tickets, but it is daydreaming typist Sally who has the winning number. (StudioCanal UK)
Cast
David Niven
UK
Best movies:
Un cadavre au dessert (1976)
The Brain (1969)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Peggy Cummins
UK
Best movies:
Gun Crazy (1950)
Hell Drivers (1957)
Night of the Demon (1957)
Anne Vernon
France
Best movies:
Il Generale Della Rovere (1959)
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin (1962)
Shakedown (1950)
Herbert Lom
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Treasure of Silver Lake (1962)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Spartacus (1960)
Gordon Jackson
UK
Best movies:
My Brother Tom (1986) (TV movie)
The Great Escape (1963)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Felix Aylmer
UK
Best movies:
Hamlet (1948)
Becket (1964)
The Citadel (1938)
Hugh McDermott
UK
Best movies:
A King in New York (1957)
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
Lawman (1971)
June Clyde
USA
Best movies:
Hollywood Party (1934)
Theodore Bikel
Austria
Best movies:
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
The African Queen (1951)
Michael Ward
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
So Long at the Fair (1950)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
Humphrey Bogart
USA
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Casablanca (1942)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Michael Craig
India
Best movies:
The Silent Enemy (1958)
Sea of Sand (1958)
Campbell's Kingdom (1957)
Gabrielle Blunt
UK
Best movies:
Mandy (1952)
The Secret Adversary (1983) (TV movie)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Sebastian Cabot
UK
Best movies:
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) - narrator
Hattie Jacques
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
Follow a Star (1959)
The Square Peg (1958)
John Glyn-Jones
UK
Best movies:
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
Two Way Stretch (1960)
Convoy (1940)
Eugene Deckers
Belgium
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
The Big Restaurant (1966)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Alexis Chesnakov
Russia
Best movies:
The Third Man (1949)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
The Great Manhunt (1950)
Charles Victor
UK
Best movies:
San Demetrio, London (1943)
The Magic Box (1951)
It Happened One Sunday (1944)
Andreas Malandrinos
Greece
Best movies:
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Help! (1965)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)