The Man Who Liked Funerals. Image shows from L to R: Stella (Susan Beaumont), Simon Hurd (Leslie Phillips). Copyright: Rank Organisation / ITV Studios
The Man Who Liked Funerals
- 1959 film
Comedy dealing with the unorthodox methods used by a publisher's printer in order to raise funds to save a local boys' club. Stars Leslie Phillips, Susan Beaumont, Bill Fraser, Thelma Ruby, Mary Mackenzie and more.
The Man Who Liked Funerals. Image shows from L to R: Nutter (Brian Tyler), Simon Hurd (Leslie Phillips), Tommy (Anthony Green), Rev. Pitt (Shaun O'Riordan), Stella (Susan Beaumont). Copyright: Rank Organisation / ITV Studios
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1959
- Creators
- Cecily Finn and Joan O'Connor
- Stars
- Leslie Phillips, Susan Beaumont, Bill Fraser, Thelma Ruby, Mary Mackenzie, Paul Stassino, Jimmy Thompson, Charles Clay and more
- Writer
- Margot Bennett
- Director
- David Eady
- Producer
- Jon Penington
- Company
Keeley Street Boys' Club is under threat of closure. With their landlord intending to sell up, despite the best intentions of the vicar and fellow trustees Simon and Stella, the £4,000 they need to buy out their lease seems plain unachievable.
That is until Simon, professionally a master printer at a London publishing house, overhears his employer dismissing an unprintably-bad submission, and news of the death of an important Army General. Perhaps the funds are not so unachievable after all...
Additional details
- UK certificate
- U
- Duration
- 59 minutes
- UK release
- January 1959
- Produced
- 1958
- Distributors
- Production
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Black and white