It’s Not Cricket
It’s Not Cricket – 1949 | 71 mins | Comedy | B&W
Plot Synopsis
For accidentally letting a dangerous Nazi, Otto (Maurice Denham), escape, Major Bright (Basil Redford) and Captain Early (Naunton Wayne) are cashiered out of the army. Together, they set up a private detective agency, but the errant Nazi still dogs their tracks on every case. He finally involves them in a barmy cricket match where the ball contains a stolen diamond.
The film has its moments of humour and revives memories of Radford and Wayne as the cricket-obsessed travellers in Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes (1938).
Production Team
Roy Rich: Director
Alfred Roome: Director
AR Yarrow: Art Direction
George Provis: Art Direction
Gordon Lang: Cinematography
Yvonne Caffin: Costume Design
Esmond Seal: Film Editing
WT Partleton: Makeup Department
Arthur Wilkinson: Original Music
Betty E Box: Producer
Gerard Bryant: Script
Bernard McNabb: Script
Lyn Lockwood: Script
HL Bird: Sound Department
BC Sewell: Sound Department
Sid Wiles: Sound Department
Cast
Basil Radford: Major Bright
Naunton Wayne: Captain Early
Susan Shaw: Primrose Brown
Maurice Denham: Otto Fisch
Nigel Buchanan: Gerald Lawson
Alan Wheatley: Felix
Jane Carr: Virginia Briscoe
Patrick Waddington: Valentine Christmas
Edward Lexy: Brigadier Falcon