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    Follow That Horse! (1960)

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    Scatterbrained young civil servant Dick Lanchester (David Tomlinson) is sent by Sir William Crane (Cecil Parker), Minister of Atomic Energy, to escort Dr Spiegel (Cyril Shaps), a brilliant physicist from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Cherwell, to a special NATO conference in London.

    While Dick is flirting with Susan Turner (Mary Peach), the daughter of a wealthy local race-horse owner (John Welsh), Spiegel – who turns out to be a spy – runs off with some top-secret microfilm.

    Spiegel’s confederates are waiting for him in a horsebox, but he mistakenly climbs into the box which Susan is driving to the races. The horse rears, Spiegel drops the microfilm, and the animal swallows it . . .

    He buys the horse at an auction after the race, despite attempts by Lanchester to outbid him and there seems to be nothing he can do to save the film – but in a riotous climax, everything turns out fine in the end.

    It’s a standard old-fashioned British farce, coaxed along by the subtly-timed performances of David Tomlinson, Cecil Parker and Richard Wattis. The film was adapted from a novel called Photo Finish by Howard Mason.

    Dick Lanchester
    David Tomlinson
    Sir William Crane
    Cecil Parker
    Hugh Porlock
    Richard Wattis
    Susan Turner
    Mary Peach
    Miss Bradstock
    Dora Bryan
    Special Branch Chief
    Raymond Huntley
    Farrell
    Sam Kydd
    Hammler
    George Pravda
    Major Turner
    John Welsh
    Garrod
    Peter Copley
    Dr Spiegel
    Cyril Shaps
    Blake
    Victor Brooks
    Riley
    Vic Wise
    Rudd
    George A. Cooper
    Harriet
    Alison Fraser

    Director
    Alan Bromly

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