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Helter Skelter is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Ralph Thomas with David Tomlinson
Helter Skelter (1949)
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Add to a movie listHelter Skelter is a 1949 British romantic comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson and Mervyn Johns. A radio star becomes involved with a wealthy heiress.
The recurring English comic characters Charters and Caldicott also appeared in the film.
Synopsis
Susan Graham (Carol Marsh) is a discontented heiress whose joint guardians (Mervyn Johns and Peter Haddon) are both trying to get her married to their odious nephews (Peter Hammond and Geoffrey Sumner, respectively). On her nineteenth birthday, the five of them visit a nightclub called the Magnolia Club; also present happens to be radio star Nick Martin (David Tomlinson), whom Susan detests. When she is inadvertently seated at Martin's table directly in front of the floor show, she refuses to move, and Martin, despite his radio reputation as a fearless detective, is too intimidated by her hauteur to insist. This, however, proves to be a mixed blessing for Susan; when the evening's principal performer, a ventriloquist, comes out, she laughs so hard at his routine that she gets a bad case of the hiccups. She attempts to cure them by getting a drink of water, but succeeds only in getting caught in the crossfire of a pie fight.Actors
David Tomlinson
(Nick Martin)
Carol Marsh
(Susan Graham)
Mervyn Johns
(Ernest Bennett)
Peter Hammond
(Spencer Stone)
Richard Hearne
(Professor Pastry)
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