A season of Britain's great laughter-makers
starring Kenneth More, Betsy Drake
with Roland Culver, Harry Green, Patrick Barr, Maureen Connell
Adapted from The Enchanted Hour by Paul Gallico
Written and directed by Henry Cornelius

A brilliant but timid engineer finds himself unexpectedly on board the Queen Elizabeth in pursuit of financial backing for a revolutionary new industrial process.
Next to No Time was the last film directed by Henry Cornelius; he died shortly before its release. Cornelius is best remembered for his two delightful comedies Genevieve (in which Kenneth More scored his first big personal success) and Passport to Pimlico, the first of the Eating comedies whose special quality was to find humour and wit in the lives of ordinary people without turning them into caricatures.