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The British Film Comedy: Law and Disorder

on BBC One London

A season of Britain's great laughter-makers.
This week: Law and Disorder
Starring Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley
with Ronald Squire, George Coulouris, Lionel Jeffries, Joan Hickson, Elizabeth Sellars.

Percy Brand, to his growing son Colin, is a clergyman. But his real vocation is as a confidence trickster and his frequent spells inside have to be explained away as missionary trips abroad.

When Colin studies law and eventually becomes a Judge's Marshal, Percy feels bound to retire to a fishing village on the south coast. Here he becomes involved with the local squire in brandy smuggling and is arrested while impersonating a customs official.

Now Percy's former cronies rally round to make his case too late for hearing at the current assizes where his son, Colin, will be in court...

Contributors

Screenplay:
T.E.B. Clarke
Screenplay:
Patrick Campbell
Screenplay:
Vivienne Knight
Based:
on the novel "Smugglers' Circuit" by Denys Roberts
Producer:
Paul Soskin
Director:
Charles Crichton
Percy Brand:
Michael Redgrave
Judge Crichton:
Robert Morley
Colonel Masters:
Ronald Squire
Gina Lasalle:
Elizabeth Sellars
Aunt Florence:
Joan Hickson
Major Proudfoot:
Lionel Jeffries
Colin Brand:
Jeremy Burnham
Mary:
Brenda Bruce
Blacky:
Harold Goodwin
Bennie:
George Coulouris
Sergeant Bolton:
Meredith Edwards
Vickery:
Reginald Beckwith
Freddie:
David Hutcheson
Lady Crichton:
Mary Kerridge
Ivan:
Michael Trubshawe
Pomfret:
John Le Mesurier
Woman in train:
Irene Handl
Police Inspector:
Allan Cuthbertson
Shorty:
Sam Kydd
Foxy:
John Hewer
Police Superintendent:
John Warwick
Mrs. Cartwright:
Nora Nicholson

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