British Comedy Guide
It's Not Cricket. Image shows from L to R: Major Bright (Basil Radford), Primrose Brown (Susan Shaw), Captain Early (Naunton Wayne). Copyright: Gainsborough Pictures 1928 Limited
It's Not Cricket

It's Not Cricket (1949)

  • 1949 film

Kicked out of the military, a pair of twits establish their own private detective firm and unwittingly find a stolen diamond. Stars Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw, Maurice Denham, Nigel Buchanan and more.

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It's Not Cricket. Image shows from L to R: Otto Fisch (Maurice Denham), Gerald Lawson (Nigel Buchanan). Copyright: Gainsborough Pictures 1928 Limited

Key details

Genre
Film
Released
1949
Stars
Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw, Maurice Denham, Nigel Buchanan, Alan Wheatley, Jane Carr, Patrick Waddington and more
Writers
Lyn Lockwood, Bernard McNabb and Gerard Bryant
Directors
Alfred Roome and Roy Rich
Producers
Betty E. Box and Peter Rogers
Company

The war has ended and the Nazis have been defeated. But Europe remains in ruins, and for the British military still stationed on the continent overseeing clean-up operations, life is tougher. Tougher still when a notorious Nazi, Otto Fisch, escapes prison.

Army pals Major Bright and Captain Early fall prey to this master of disguise and fluent English-speaker when returning to England on leave. But they only get as far as Folkestone before a more senior officer recognises their new batman's real identity! It's not long before the pair are demobbed for allowing him to slip into the country freely: they are supposedly in intelligence, after all!

Back in London, Bright and Early set about finding new civilian occupations for themselves, and resolve on establishing their own private detective agency. Having found a famous actress's missing dog, it's not long before the disastrous duo are unwittingly on the trail of Fisch once more - and now he's got a stolen diamond to conceal.

Additional details

UK certificate
U
Duration
74 minutes
Production
Studio
Picture
Black and white
Soundtrack
Music composed by Arthur Wilkinson and played by the London Symphony Orchestra.

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Broadcast details

Most recent repeats
  • Thursday 22nd March 2018 at 3:30pm on London Live
  • Saturday 15th April 2017 at 10:00am on London Live
  • Sunday 5th February 2017 at 1:00pm on London Live

Recording details

  • Gainsborough Studios

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