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Initial release
  
April 1951

Running time
  
1h 17m

Adapted from
  
Worms Eye View

Duration
  

Director
  
Jack Raymond

Genre
  
Comedy

Writer
  
R.F. Delderfield (play), R.F. Delderfield (screenplay), Jack Marks

Cast
  
Diana Dors
,
Bruce Seton
,
Digby Wolfe
,
Garry Marsh

Similar movies
  
All the Queens Men (2001), The Rat (1937), Meet the Boy Friend (1937)


Worms Eye View is a 1951 British, Technicolor, comedy film, directed by Jack Raymond and starring Ronald Shiner as Sam Porter and Diana Dors as Thelma. Based on the successful play of the same name by R.F. Delderfield, it was produced by Henry Halsted and Byron Film.

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Plot summary

This comedy is set in a family home during World War II. Their bitter landlady is not pleased by five fighters from the Royal Air Force who are staying there and she re-directs unjustly, her frustrations against the family. Part of this film appears in Rise and Shiner.

Reception

The film was the sixth most popular movie at the British box office in 1951.

Cast

  • Ronald Shiner as Sam Porter
  • Garry Marsh as Pop Brownlow
  • Diana Dors as Thelma
  • John Blythe as Duke
  • Bruce Seton as Squadron Leader Briarly
  • Digby Wolfe as Corporal Mark Trelawney
  • Eric Davies as Taffy
  • Everley Gregg as Mrs. Bounty
  • Christina Forrest as Bella Bounty
  • References

    Worms Eye View Wikipedia
    Worms Eye View themoviedb.org