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Find the Lady (1956 film)

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Find the Lady
Original trade ad
Directed by	Charles Saunders
Screenplay by	Kenneth Hayles
Story by	Paul Erickson Dermot Palmer
Produced by	John Temple-Smith
Starring	Donald Houston Mervyn Johns Beverly Brooks
Cinematography	Brendan J. Stafford
Edited by	Richard Sidwell
Music by	Ray Terry Philip Martell (musical director)
Production companies	Major Productions Act Productions
Distributed by	J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors (UK)
Release date	October 1956 (1956-10) (UK)
Running time	56 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£12,000^[1]

Find the Lady is a 1956 British comedy thriller 'B'^[2] film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Donald Houston, Beverley Brooks and Mervyn Johns.^[3]

Plot[edit]

During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her godmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.

Cast[edit]

Donald Houston as Bill
Beverley Brooks as June Weston
Mervyn Johns as Hurst
Kay Callard as Rita
Maurice Kaufmann as Nicky
Edwin Richfield as Max
Moray Watson as Jimmy
Ferdy Mayne as Tony Del Roma
Anne Heywood as receptionist
Nigel Green as photographer
Enid Lorimer as Miss Rees (uncredited)

Critical reception[edit]

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Intended presumably as a comedy thriller, Find the Lady lacks wit and is only intermittently exciting. It is difficult to decide from Beverly Brooks' performance whether the heroine is meant to be as empty-headed as she appears. Of the supporting cast, only Maurice Kaufman and Edwin Richfield manage to bring any conviction to their parts."^[4]

InBritish Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Neatly plotted comedy-thriller taher short on genuine humour."^[5]

References[edit]

^ MacFarlane, Brian (1997). An autobiography of British cinema : as told by the filmmakers and actors who made it. p. 521.

^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.

^ "Find the Lady". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 31 January 2024.

^ "Find the Lady". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 23 (264): 140. 1 January 1956 – via ProQuest.

^ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 309. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.

External links[edit]

Find the LadyatIMDb
Find the Lady then-and-now location photographs at ReelStreets

Films by Charles Saunders

Feature films

Director	No Exit (1930) Everything Is Thunder (1936) Tawny Pipit (1944) (co-director, Bernard Miles) The Way to the Stars (1945, director of Second Unit) The White Unicorn (1947, location director) Fly Away Peter (1948) Trouble in the Air (1948) Your Witness (1950, assistant to director) Dark Interval (1950) Chelsea Story (1951) One Wild Oat (1951) Death of an Angel (1952) Blind Man's Bluff (1952) Come Back Peter (1952) Black Orchid (1953) Love in Pawn (1953) The Scarlet Web (1954) The Golden Link (1954) Meet Mr. Callaghan (1954) One Jump Ahead (1955) The Hornet's Nest (1955) A Time to Kill (1955) The Narrowing Circle (1956) Behind the Headlines (1956) Find the Lady (1956) Murder Reported (1957) There's Always a Thursday (1957) The Man Without a Body (1957) Date with Disaster (1957) Kill Her Gently (1957) The End of the Line (1957) Womaneater (1958) Nudist Paradise (1958) Naked Fury (1959) Strictly Confidential (1959) Operation Cupid (1959) The Gentle Trap (1960) Dangerous Afternoon (1961) Jungle Street (1961) Danger by My Side (1963)
Editor	Enter the Queen (1930) Bill's Legacy (1931) Immediate Possession (1931) Peace and Quiet (1931) We dine at Seven (1931) Detective Lloyd (1931) The Wrong Mr. Perkins (1931) The Guv'nor (1935) O.H.M.S. (1937) Take My Tip (1937) The Gaunt Stranger (1938) Sweet Devil (1938) The Ware Case (1938) The Four Just Men (1939) Young Man's Fancy (1939) Return to Yesterday (1940) Alibi (1942, supervising editor) The Gentle Sex (1943)
Cutter	Cottage to Let (1941) I Thank You (1941) Hi Gang! (1941) Back-Room Boy (1942) We Dive at Dawn (1943)
Script writer	Tawny Pipit (1944) Come Back Peter (1952)

Television

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents (8 episodes) (1953–1954)
Fabian of the Yard (10 episodes) (1953–1956)
Adventures of the Big Man (9 episodes) (1956)

Family

Peter Saunders (impresario)

Film

London

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