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The Chiltern Hundreds

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Calorie Rating: 118
Released: 1949-09-27
MPAA Rating: G
Running Time: 84 Minutes
Studios: Two Cities Films,


Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...

Director / Directors

Peter Bolton
Assistant Director
Olga Brook
Continuity



Cast

David Tomlinson
Character: Lord Tony Pym
Lana Morris
Character: Bessie Sykes
Cecil Parker
Character: Benjamin Beecham

Marjorie Fielding
Character: Lady Lister
Tom Macaulay
Character: Cleghorn
Joyce Carey
Character: Lady Caroline

Helen Backlin
Character: June Farrell
Robert Cawdron
Character: Sergeant
Cyril Chamberlain
Character: Sentry

Peggy Ann Clifford
Character: Mother
Richard Dunn
Character: Labour Agent
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Character: Lady Fielding

Bill Shine
Character: Reporter
Dervis Ward
Character: Driver
Desmond Llewelyn
Character: First Guardsman (uncredited)

Laurence Naismith
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Richard Wattis
Character: Vicar (uncredited)
John Wynn
Character: Second Guardsman

A.E. Matthews
Character: Lord Lister
Michael Brennan
Character: Sergeant
Charles Cullum
Character: Colonel

Anthony Steel
Character: Adjutant
Joan Hopkins
Character: Flower Show Attendee (uncredited)
Gerald Andersen
Character: Mr. Brown


Production and Crew


Ralph W. Brinton
Art Direction

Eleanor Abbey
Costume Design
Jack Hildyard
Director of Photography
Benjamin Frankel
Original Music Composer

Herbert Smith
Production Manager
F. Sherwin Green
Production Manager
Desmond Dew
Sound Recordist

John W. Mitchell
Sound Recordist
Edward Marshall
Assistant Art Director
Tony Sforzini
Makeup Supervisor

Vivienne Walker
Hair Supervisor
Anne V. Coates
Assistant Editor