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Alternative title:
Adventures of Sadie
Adaptation of
The Cautious Amorist
1932
single work
novel
Issue Details:
First known date:
1954...
1954
Our Girl Friday
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Film Details - Renown Film Productions , 1954
Producers:
George Minter
Production Companies:
Renown Film Productions Ltd
Langley-Minter
Director of Photography:
Wilkie Cooper
Editors:
John Pomeroy
John Seabourne Sr.
Production Designers:
Frederick Pusey
Composer:
Ronald Binge
Cast:
Joan Collins (Sadie Patch), George Cole (Jimmy Carrol), Kenneth More (Pat Plunkett), Robertson Hare (Professor Gibble), Hermione Gingold (Spinster), Walter Fitzgerald (Captain), Hattie Jacques (Mrs Patch), Felix Felton (Mr Patch), Lionel Murton (Barman), Anthony Tancred (Smithers), Michael Meacham (Schooner Officer), Peter Sellers (voice of the parrot - uncredited).
Release Dates:
1. Premiered on 1 December 1953 (UK). Other release dates include Finland (5 March 1954); Sweden (7 May 1955); USA (17 May 1955).
2. Released on DVD format ca. 2006 by Simply Media.
Location:
- Filmed in England and Mallorca (Spain).
Notes:
1. Also known as The Adventures of Sadie (USA); Come Eva... più di Eva (Italy); Oi Erastai tis Mayorcas (Greece); Skeppsbrutna i Paradiset (Sweden); and Tyttö Autiolla Saarella (Finland).
Chaplin quotes at length from a letter to Lindsay from Langley about the film (Chaplin, Norman Lindsay p.42).
