Its Not Cricket (1949 film)
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Director Alfred Roome, Roy Rich Music by Arthur Wilkinson Producers Peter Rogers, Betty Box Country United Kingdom | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Adventure, Comedy Cinematography Gordon Lang Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 1949 Writer Lyn Lockwood (screenplay), Bernard McNabb (screenplay), Gerard Bryant (additional scenes) Cast Basil Radford (Maj. Bright), Naunton Wayne (Capt. Early), Susan Shaw (Primrose Brown), Maurice Denham (Otto Fisch), Nigel Buchanan (Gerald Lawson), Alan Wheatley (Felix)Similar movies Carry On Cabby (1963), Carry On Cowboy (1965), Carry On Cruising (1962), Carry On Constable (1960), Follow That Camel (1967) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Its Not Cricket is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Alfred Roome and starring Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw and Maurice Denham. It is the second (after 1941s Crooks Tour) of two starring films for Radford and Wayne who appeared as supporting players in ten other films. It was also one of the final films made by Gainsborough Pictures before the studio was merged into the Rank Organisation.
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Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
Plot
Major Bright and Captain Early are intelligence officers in the British army of occupation in post-World War 2 Germany. They are sent home on leave, but fail to notice that their new batman is actually wanted war criminal Otto Fisch. He vanishes on arrival in England and the two officers are punished by early demobilisation. Uncertain what to do in civvy street, they decide to utilise the "skills" they learned in the army and set up a private detective agency, "Bright and Early". They engage a secretary, Primrose Brown, but shes not very busy as they have as yet no clients.
Primrosess boyfriend/fiancee invites them all to a weekend country house party for a cricket match. But what they dont know is that the cricket ball they buy in London actually contains a valuable stolen diamond that Fisch has purloined. It has been hidden in the hollow ball by his friend and protector Mr Felix, who runs a sporting goods shop.
As the match gets under way, Fisch and Felix watch from the cover of the trees and manage to infiltrate the game, stealing the ball. A free-for-all chase ensues; Bright and Early manage to recover the ball and the diamond. They now become celebrities and dont lack for eager clients. Fisch is finally seen working for the detective agency, the two detectives still apparently unaware of his identity.
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