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Release year: 1959

Storyline

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.

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Directors

Sidney Gilliat

Writers

Cast

Patricia Bredin — Left - Stella Stoker
Eric Barker — Left - Bert Glimmer
Jack Hedley — Left - Bill Hemingway
Leslie Dwyer — Left - Alf Stoker

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Did you know

• The pub sign "The Man With The Load Of Mischief" at 54 minutes 20 seconds was intact 14 years later and used in the September 1973 promotional video for Rod Stewart's "Oh No Not My Baby" (In colour)

• Last film of Gordon Harker. He was reunited for it with Alastair Sim, his co-star in the "Inspector Hornleigh" films of some twenty years earlier.

• A general election seemed imminent in Britain at the time the film was made, and Sidney Gilliat, the director, had every reason to expect a summer election, as this was widely predicted. He therefore timed this film for a summer release. However, the incumbent Conservatives, who had lost a great deal of credibility after the Suez Crisis of 1956, put it off until the autumn, which Gilliat said led to the film being less of a box-office hit than he'd hoped. (The Conservatives won the election with an overall majority of 49).