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Midnight Movie: An Alligator Named Daisy

on BBC Two England

Screenplay by Jack Davies based on a novel by Charles Terrot.
Starring Donald Sinden, Diana Dors, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice, Margaret Rutherford, Stanley Holloway.

Peter Weston, a songwriter, finds himself the unwilling owner of Daisy, an alligator. After his efforts to dispose of her are thwarted - there is a delightful scene with Margaret Rutherford as a cranky pet-shop owner who, like Dr. Dolittle, can talk to the animals - Peter decides he will keep his increasingly endearing pet. However, he is then faced with his fiancee's challenge: "Either the alligator goes, or I do".

(Colour)

Contributors

Screenwriter:
Jack Davies
Author:
Charles Terrot
Director:
J. Lee-Thompson
Producer:
Raymond Stross
Peter:
Donald Sinden
Vanessa:
Diana Dors
Moira:
Jeannie Carson
Sir James:
James Robertson Justice
The General:
Stanley Holloway
Prudence:
Margaret Rutherford
Hoskins:
Richard Wattis
Guest artist:
Jimmy Edwards
Guest artist:
Frankie Howerd
Guest artist:
Gilbert Harding

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