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Saturday Cinema: Poet's Pub

on BBC Two England

Starring Derek Bond, Rona Anderson with James Robertson Justice, Barbara Murray, Leslie Dwyer

Comedy and romance are the key-notes of this lively British film about an Oxford undergraduate - a budding poet and rowing Blue - who takes over a run-down Tudor inn. Complications develop when a priceless Elizabethan relic is discovered on the premises.
(Philip Jenkinson: page 11)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Diana Morgan
Based on the novel by:
Eric Linklater
Producer:
Donald B. Wilson
Director:
Frederick Wilson
Saturday Keith:
Derek Bond
Joanna Benbow:
Rona Anderson
Professor Benbow:
James Robertson Justice
Van Buren:
John McLaren
Nelly Bly:
Barbara Murray
Quentin Cotton:
Peter Croft
Holly:
Leslie Dwyer

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