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A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
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1949 Directed by Ralph Thomas
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Carol Marsh David Tomlinson Mervyn Johns Richard Hearne Terry-Thomas Jimmy Edwards Peter Hammond Jon Pertwee Wilfrid Hyde-White Peter Haddon Geoffrey Sumner Zena Marshall Colin Gordon Judith Furse Edmund Willard Robert Lamouret Henry Kendall Bill Fraser Shirl Conway George Benson Sandra Dorne Patricia Raine Ronald Adam Michael Balfour Johnny Briggs Esma Cannon Cyril Chamberlain Andrew Crawford Valentine Dyall Show All…
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Not as funny as it needs to be for all its zany cuteness not to grate – some skits land and others exhaust – but I can't argue with Wilfrid Hyde White as the Dr Jekyll of hiccups, or with Judith Furse booming around on a scooter.
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Only suitable for two types of people: those who want to see a young David Tomlinson as a Hugh Grant-style leading man; or excitable-eight year olds from 1949 for whom the madcap zany antics will hold the least tedium.
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Ralph Thomas’s British romantic fantasy comedy in which a radio ‘detective’ gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can’t stop hiccupping. Starring Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson and Mervyn Johns.
The story concerns virtually zero appears to operate on a young Englishwoman’s (Carol Marsh) hiccups.
Carol Marsh gives an okay performance in her part as Susan Graham, the young heiress who is unable to treat her hiccups, no matter what she does, while David Tomlinson is alright as Nick Martin, the radio star involved.
Elsewhere, Mervyn Johns and Peter Haddon play the parts of guardians Ernest Bennett and Spencer Stone, while Wilfrid Hyde-White appears as Carol’s doctor and keep an eye out for Terry-Thomas who appears as himself, doing a radio…
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Young and high eligible heiress Susan Graham, gets a case of the hiccups which she just can't shake.
Her two would be suitors run around at the behest of their uncles, who also happen to be Susan's guardians, trying to find a cure while she is literally struck by Cupid's arrow and falls for radio performer Nick Martin (David Tomlinson). Not much of a basis for a feature film, you'd think, and you'd be right about that.
The film's title is a clue to the nature of the film and director Ralph Thomas has mentioned his admiration for Hellzapoppin'. And there is something of that movie here, on the whole it's all just an excuse to roll out a variety…
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Cut-price British comedy that belts along and is loaded with great UK faces. Gorgeous Carol Marsh gets the hiccups, so goes to a haunted house for a cure-shock. Absurd/silly/fun stuff for fans of custard pie fights, The Goons and HELLZAPOPPIN (1941).