Tod Slaughter in a classic Victorian melodrama. With George King directing and producing we have the B-movie dream team to work their special kind of magic. Script adapt . H.F. Maltby, A.R. Rawlinson. Hayley Mills' debut made her a star, and didn't hurt Horst Buchholz' career either.
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The quartet accidentally end up in Elizabethan England and the Professor gets thrown in the tower for making prophecies about the future of the throne. It's an amiable enough picture, but Handley never really found a screen persona to match his radio one. Olga Lindo is the standout as Elizabeth though she's helped by a striking resemblance to Flora Robson. The inhabitants of a perfect English village excitedly look forward to the Prime Minister's visit, but then realise they have to do something about the local drunk first. Sweet little comedy with Eddie Byrne getting a star part for once and giving it all he's got.