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The Promoter

Year:

1952

Duration:

85 min | UK:91 min

Genres:

Comedy

IMDB rate:

7.2

Director:

Ronald Neame

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1952-08-14

Filming Locations: D&P Studios, Denham Studios, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Michael Trubshawe

Alec Guinness

Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

Glynis Johns

Ruth Earp

Valerie Hobson

Countess of Chell

Petula Clark

Nellie Cotterill

Edward Chapman

Herbert Duncalf

Veronica Turleigh

Mrs. Machin

George Devine

Mr. H. Calvert

Joan Hickson

Mrs. Codleyn

Frank Pettingell

Police Superintendent

Gibb McLaughlin

Emery

Joey the Mule

Peter Copley

P. Shillitoe (uncredited)

Mark Daly

Lord Mayor (uncredited)

Deidre Doyle

Widow Hullins (uncredited)

Henry Edwards

Mr. Cotterill

Lyn Evans

Cregeen (uncredited)

Tom Gill

Miriam's Young Man (uncredited)

Harold Goodwin

John (uncredited)

Matthew Guinness

Denry as a Boy (uncredited)

May Hallatt

Ladies Committee Member (uncredited)

Paul Hopkins

Denry as a Baby (uncredited)

Michael Hordern

Bank Manager (uncredited)

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Lord at Liverpool Boat Harbour (uncredited)

Ann Lancaster

Miriam (uncredited)

Alison Leggatt

Mrs. Cotterill (uncredited)

Norman Macowan

Simeon (uncredited)

Raymond Rollett

Works Bandmaster (uncredited)

Brian Roper

Newsboy at Football Stadium (uncredited)

Ewen Solon

Bookstall Attendant at Llandudno (uncredited)

Frank Tickle

Mr. Bostock (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

At the very end of the film, the town band strikes up the Col. Bogey March. Five years later, the same piece of music would become better known as the theme from the Alec Guinness movie "Bridge on the river Kwai."

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The tune played during the parade at the end of the movie is the "Colonel Bogey March", which was used prominently in another Alec Guinness film, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).

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Goofs

Editing: In the parade at the end of the film, the star footballer signed by Machin (who doesn't yet appear in the cast credits) winks at the grandees during the march past in long shot followed second later by the close-up of the same action.

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Inside the moving van, the position of the match in Denry's hand changes between shots.

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