The Galloping Major (film)
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Country United Kingdom | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 8 May 1951 Cast Similar movies Joyce Grenfell appears in The Galloping Major and Genevieve | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Galloping Major is a 1951 British comedy sports film, starring Basil Radford, Jimmy Hanley and Janette Scott. It also featured Sid James, Charles Hawtrey and Joyce Grenfell in supporting roles. It was directed by Henry Cornelius and made at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. The film's sets were designed by Norman Arnold.
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The title is taken from the song "The Galloping Major", and the plot was centred on gambling at the horse racing track. People in a London suburb form a syndicate to buy a race horse to run in the Grand National.
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Production
The film was made as an independent production, backed by the Woolf Brothers. It proved profitable at the box office, but producer Monja Danischewsky quit independent production afterwards to return to work at Ealing Studios. It has been noted as being similar in style to the Ealing comedies of the same era.
It features appearances by several figures well-known at the time, including the jockey Charlie Smirke and the radio commentators Raymond Glendenning and Bruce Belfrage.
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