Fast and Loose (1954 film)

Fast and Loose is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Stanley Holloway, Kay Kendall and Brian Reece. It was based on A Cuckoo in the Nest by Ben Travers, the first of his Aldwych farces, which had previously been adapted as a 1933 film of the same title.

Contents

• Plot
• Cast
• Critical reception
• References

Plot

An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.

Cast

Stanley Holloway as Major George Crabb

Kay Kendall as Carol Hankin

Brian Reece as Peter Wickham

Charles Victor as Lumper

June Thorburn as Barbara 'Babsie' Wickham

Reginald Beckwith as Reverend Tripp-Johnson

Vida Hope as Gladys

Joan Young as Mrs. Gullett, Inn Manageress

Fabia Drake as Mrs Crabb

Dora Bryan as Mary Rawlings, the maid

Aubrey Mather as Noony

Toke Townley as Alfred

Alexander Gauge as Hankin

Eliot Makeham as Railway porter

John Warren as Chauffeur

Critical reception

TV Guide called the film an "unfunny remake of A Cuckoo in the Nest(1933)."