No Smoking (1955 film)
No Smoking is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Henry Cass and starring Reg Dixon, Peter Martyn, Belinda Lee and Lionel Jeffries.[1][2] It was based on a TV play by George Moresby-White.[3]
Synopsis
A scientist who invents a pill that can cure smokers of their nicotine addiction faces strong opposition from both the tobacco industry and the government.[4]
Cast
- Reg Dixon - Reg Bates
- Peter Martyn - Hal Hurst
- Belinda Lee - Miss Tonkins
- Ruth Trouncer - Joyce
- Alexander Gauge - Wellington-Simpson
- Lionel Jeffries - George Pogson
- Myrtle Rowe - Milly
- Arthur Young - Joe Dawson
- Hal Osmond - Yokel
- Tom Gill - Foreign Office Official
- Ronnie Stevens - BBC Man
- Alan Robinson - Thackery
- Bill Lowe - Civil Servant
- Doris Hare - Customer
- Ian Fleming - Doctor Moxom
- Patrick Jordan - Reporter
- Alan Gifford - American Ambassador
- Roger Maxwell - Major
- Scott Harrold - Man in Surgery
- Jan Holden - Receptionist
- Phil Park - Vicar
- James Raglan - Chancellor
Production
It was made at Alliance Studios, Southall. It was one of only a few movies starring Reg Dixon.[5]
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin said "the action does not fizz; the bubbles never quite come to the surface."[6]
gollark: I think it's just become a meme at this point.
gollark: ... Raid Shadow Legends. Really. Does anyone actually *play* it?
gollark: Very exciting, I'll go download it now.
gollark: I wonder if we can make people buy other random stuff the same way.
gollark: Was what?
References
- "No Smoking - Film". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- "No Smoking (1955)". BFI.
- Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). "The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film". Walter de Gruyter – via Google Books.
- "No Smoking". IMDB. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- BACKBEAT: 1950: Confidentially - it's our Reg ; BECAUSE THEY DON'T MAKE MUSIC LIKE THEY USED TO!: [First Edition] Chambers, Peter. Coventry Evening Telegraph; Coventry [Coventry]25 Jan 2005: 16, 17.
- NO SMOKING Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 22, Iss. 252, (Jan 1, 1955): 181.
External links
- No Smoking on IMDb
- No Smoking at BFI
- No Smoking at Reel Streets
- No Smoking at Letterbox DVD
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