Don't Bother to Knock (1961 film)
Don't Bother to Knock (US: Why Bother to Knock) is a 1961 CinemaScope British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and co-produced by and starring Richard Todd. Also starring with Todd were Nicole Maurey, Elke Sommer and John Le Mesurier.
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Directed by | Cyril Frankel |
Produced by | Frank Godwin |
Written by | Denis Cannan Frederic Gotfurt Frederic Raphael |
Based on | Don't Bother to Knock 1959 novel by Clifford Hanley |
Starring | Richard Todd Nicole Maurey Elke Sommer John Le Mesurier |
Music by | Elisabeth Lutyens |
Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth |
Edited by | Anne V. Coates |
Distributed by | Warner-Pathé Distributors (UK) |
Release date | 29 May 1961 (London) |
Running time | 89 minutes (UK) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Synopsis
Bill Ferguson (Richard Todd), a travel agent in Edinburgh, has an argument with his girlfriend Stella after he loses the key to his apartment. Unnoticed by Bill, Maggie, an American business associate of his, finds his key in his trouser cuff where he had dropped it, but, before returning it, she makes a copy of the key and gives Bill a gift of a case containing several copies of the key with his address on an attached metal tag.
Subsequently travelling around Europe on a business trip, Bill has romantic encounters with three women, giving each one a standing invitation to visit him when in Edinburgh plus one of the keys to his flat. When two of them, plus the daughter of the other, arrive at about the same time to attend the Edinburgh Festival, they all decide to stay with Bill, and Bill has to cope with the women all meeting each other, as well as Stella finding out about them.[1]
Cast
- Richard Todd as Bill Ferguson
- Nicole Maurey as Lucille
- Elke Sommer as Ingrid
- June Thorburn as Stella
- Rik Battaglia as Gulio
- Judith Anderson as Maggie
- Dawn Beret as Harry
- Scott Finch as Perry
- Eleanor Summerfield as Mother
- John Le Mesurier as Father
- Colin Gordon as Rolsom
- Kenneth Fortescue as Ian
- Ronald Fraser as Fred
- Tommy Duggan as Al
- Michael Shepley as Colonel
- Joan Sterndale-Bennett as Spinster
- Amanda Barrie as American Girl
References
External links
- Don't Bother to Knock at British Comedy Guide
- Don't Bother to Knock on IMDb
- Don't Bother to Knock at AllMovie
- Don't Bother to Knock at the TCM Movie Database
- Don't Bother to Knock at the American Film Institute Catalog