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Director
  
Michael Barry

Distributor
  
General Film Distributors

Country
  
United Kingdom

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Stop Press Girl movie poster

Release date
  
June 1949 (UK)

Writer
  
T.J. Morrison (screenplay), T.J. Morrison (story), Basil Thomas (story)

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)

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Stop Press Girl is a 1949 British fantasy comedy film directed by Michael Barry and starring Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne; the latter two appearing in several different roles in the film. The film was one of four of David Rawnsley's Aquila Films that used his proposed "independent frame" technique.

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Plot

Jennifer Peters is a normal girl except for one unfortunate trait. All the women in her family stop any mechanical contrivance that they travel in. As the film progresses, Jennifer stops her boyfriend's automobile, then a train she travels in without being aware of what she does. Tension mounts when a girlfriend takes ill and Jennifer takes her job; an air hostess on a Liberator airliner!

Main cast

  • Sally Ann Howes – Jennifer Peters
  • Gordon Jackson – Jock Meville
  • Basil Radford – The Mechanical Type
  • Naunton Wayne – The Mechanical Type
  • James Robertson Justice – Arthur
  • Sonia Holm – Angela Carew
  • Nigel Buchanan – Rory Fairfax
  • Joyce Barbour – Aunt Mab
  • Campbell Cotts – John Fairfax
  • Cyril Chamberlain – Johnie
  • Julia Lang – Carole Saunders
  • Percy Walsh – Editor, Evening Comet
  • Oliver Burt – Editor, Morning Sun
  • Kenneth More – Police Sgt. 'Bonzo'
  • Humphrey Lestocq – Radio Commentator
  • Michael Goodliffe – McPherson

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