Grand National Night

1953

1h 20m

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7.9/10

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The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder charge.

Directors

Bob McNaught

Writers

Bob McNaught(writer by)

Stars

Nigel Patrick

Moira Lister

Beatrice Campbell

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Top cast

Gerald Coates

Babs Coates

Joyce Penrose

Pinkie Collins

Inspector Ayling

Philip Balfour

Jack Donovan

Sergeant Gibson

Buns Darling

Morton

Chandler

Hoskyns

George

Railway Official

Plainclothes Detective

Richard Graydon

Chandler

Directors

Bob McNaught

Writers

Bob McNaught(writer by)

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What ought to have been night of celebration turns sour for Grand National winning owner "Coates" (Nigel Patrick) when a contretemps with his drunken wife "Babs" (Moira Lister) leaves him the subject of a police investigation. The thing is - what really happened that night and can the pernickety "Insp. Ayling" (Michael Hordern) piece it all together? Lister features but sparingly, but her characterisation of "Babs" does rather get under your fingernails, so as the police work proceeded I did start to feel just a bit of sympathy for her rather idiotic, but good natured, husband - and Patrick is on decent form in that role here. It skips along nicely and engagingly for eighty minutes with a solid contribution from the usually reliable Noel Purcell and a soupçon of glamour from the underused Beatrice Campbell too. Maybe not his "latest and greatest screen role" as it said in the publicity blurb, but it's not a bad vehicle for a star who does enough here to keep it interesting, if not exactly intriguing with what must have been a fairly limited budget.

Geronimo196705 Nov, 2023