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A Lady Mislaid

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A Lady Mislaid
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Directed byDavid MacDonald
Written byFrederick Gotfurt
Based onA Lady Mislaid
by Kenneth Horne
Produced byRobert Hall
StarringPhyllis Calvert
Alan White
Thorley Walters
Gillian Owen
CinematographyNorman Warwick
Edited bySeymour Logie
Music bySydney John Kay
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated British-Pathé (UK)
Release date
  • 1958 (1958)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Lady Mislaid is a 1958 British comedy film directed by David MacDonald and starring Phyllis Calvert, Alan White and Thorley Walters.[1][2] It was written by Frederick Gotfurt based on the 1948 play of the same name by Kenneth Horne.[3]

Plot

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Esther and her sister Jennifer are spinsters. Esther has bought a remote country cottage, and has invited her novelist sister to stay for recuperation. Esther hasn't told Jennifer that a policeman had called, earlier, had explained that the police wanted to search the house and gardens for the body of the former owner's wife, and that she'd agreed. When a human skeleton is unearthed in the chicken coop, the finger of suspicion points firmly at the previous occupant, Mr. Smith; till it is discovered to be an ancient Briton.

Cast

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Critical reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An attempt at a short comédie noire, thls film needs a more ruthless and macabre line in humour to exploit a promising situation. Conventional characters and a flagging plot produce, instead of the witty melodrama that might have emerged, a tame piece of make-believe."[4]

The Radio Times gave the film two out of five stars, writing: "A quaint idea and a decent cast make perfectly respectable entertainment out of an hour-long British programmer, but there's not much more to be said for it."[5]

References

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  1. ^ "A Lady Mislaid". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  2. ^ "A Lady Mislaid (1958)". Archived from the original on 1 October 2016.
  3. ^ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "A Lady Mislaid". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 25 (288): 156. 1 January 1958 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ "A Lady Mislaid - Film from RadioTimes".
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