Stop Press Girl (1949)

5.9/10 78 min Comedy

Overview

A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.

Cast

Sally Ann Howes

Jennifer Peters

Gordon Jackson

Jock Melville

Basil Radford

The Mechanical Type

Naunton Wayne

The Mechanical Type

James Robertson Justice

Arthur Peters

Sonia Holm

Angela Carew

Nigel Buchanan

Roy Fairfax

Joyce Barbour

Aunt Mab

Cyril Chamberlain

Johnnie

Kenneth More

Police Sgt. 'Bonzo'

Humphrey Lestocq

Radio Commentator

Vincent Ball

Hero in cinema sequence

Michael Goodliffe

McPherson

Michael Balfour

Crook (uncredited)

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