You Must Be Joking! (1965 film)
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| Directed by | Michael Winner |
| Produced by | Charles H. Schneer |
| Screenplay by | Alan Hackney Jan Read from a story by Michael Winner |
| Starring | Michael Callan Lionel Jeffries Denholm Elliott |
| Music by | Laurie Johnson |
| Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| Edited by | Bernard Gribble |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures Corporation (UK) |
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Release dates
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3 August 1965 (London) |
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
You Must Be Joking! is a 1965 British comedy film directed by Michael Winner.
Plot
A collection of British soldiers and one US Air Force officer are tested in initiative by being given a scavenger hunt to perform. They are instructed to obtain six status symbols of the British way of life, in a sort of modern rendition of the "feats of Hercules". Among the feats to be accomplished in 48 hours are escaping from a maze, obtaining a rare rose and the hood ornament off a Rolls-Royce, and taking a lock of hair from a popular singer.[1][2]
Cast
- Michael Callan - Lieutenant Tim Morton
- Lionel Jeffries - Sergeant Major McGregor
- Denholm Elliott - Captain Tabasco
- Wilfrid Hyde-White - General Lockwood
- Bernard Cribbins - Sergeant Clegg
- Terry-Thomas - Major Foskett
- James Robertson Justice - Librarian
- Gabriella Licudi - Annabelle Nash
- Leslie Phillips - Young husband
- Gwendolyn Watts - Young wife
- Patricia Viterbo - Sylvie Tarnet
- Lee Montague - Staff Sergeant Mansfield
- Irene Handl - Elderly Woman
- Richard Wattis - Parkins
- Miles Malleson - Salesman
- Clive Dunn - Doorman
- Tracy Reed - Poppy Pennington
- James Villiers - Bill Simpson
- Graham Stark - McGregor's Suez comrade
- Arthur Howard - Cecil
- Arthur Lowe - Husband
- Peter Bull - Ferocious Man in Library
- Norman Vaughan - Norman Stone
- Dave Watts keyboards - Ricky Ticky Taylor Pop Star
Critical reception
- TV Guide called it, " Lunacy and laughs galore, with director Winner's gimmicky style much in evidence."[2]
- Hal Erickson wrote in The New York Times, " Director Michael Winner was still in his "mad mod" period when he lensed the wacky goings-on of You Must be Joking? His Death Wish pictures of the 1970s were in 1965 as remote as another galaxy."[3]
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). You Must Be Joking! at IMDb
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