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Left Right and Centre is a 1959 British satirical comedy film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Ian Carmichael, Patricia Bredin, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker and Alastair Sim. It was produced by Frank Launder. A political comedy, it follows the events of a by-election in a small English town.
Plot
Robert Wilcot, a popular television personality, is selected as the Conservative candidate for the provincial town of Earndale in the upcoming by-election. His selection is mostly due to the influence of his uncle, Lord Wilcot, a powerful local figure. His opponent is to be Stella Stoker, a fishmonger's daughter with a degree from the London School of Economics who has been chosen to stand for the Labour Party.
Travelling up on the train to Earndale, the two candidates meet and while she quickly works out who he is, he remains ignorant of her true identity. To try to show off he begins to tell her about his selection for the seat and how he expects to win. He describes his opponent as a bluestocking. He also inadvertently reveals embarrassing details to her such as the fact that he has scarcely been to Earndale in his life and that his family once controlled the seat as a rotten borough. Once they arrive at Earndale station, he is soon made aware of his mistake. The electoral agents of both candidates are furious to discover they have been fraternising on the train.
Wilcot goes to visit his uncle, and finds him to be an eccentric who has turned his country house into a money-making operation for visiting coach parties of tourists. It appears that he has engineered Robert Wilcot's selection as a candidate in order to spark public interest in the election, boosting his own business. It is also clear that the political contest is added to by the enmity of the two electoral agents the Tory Christopher Harding-Pratt and Labour's Bert Glimmer.
Once on the stump the two candidates keep running into each other around Earndale, at one point during a factory visit leading to a shouting match. Both begin to become entranced by the other, and become convinced they are falling in love. This comes to a head during the hustings at Wilcot Hall where they are caught kissing in the maze by their respective agents. Burying the hatchet, the two agents try to foil the potential romance. Despite repeated attempts to break up the candidates they continue a covert relationship.
Cast and Production
= Main cast
=Ian Carmichael - Robert Wilcot
Patricia Bredin - Stella Stoker
Richard Wattis - Harding-Pratt
Eric Barker - Bert Glimmer
Alastair Sim - Lord Wilcot
Moyra Fraser - Annabel
Jack Hedley - Bill Hemmingway
Gordon Harker - Hardy
William Kendall - Pottle
Anthony Sharp - Peterson
George Benson - Egerton
Leslie Dwyer - Alf Stoker
Moultrie Kelsall - Grimsby Armfield
Jeremy Hawk - TV interviewer
Russell Waters - Mr. Bray
Olwen Brookes - Mrs. Samson
John Salew - Mayor
Bill Shine - Basingstoke
Erik Chitty - Deputy returning officer
Redmond Phillips - Mr. Smithson
Irene Handl - Mrs. Maggs
John Sharp - Mr. Reeves
= Supporting cast
=Douglas Ives - Plumber
Olaf Pooley - TV newscaster
Hattie Jacques - Woman in car
Frederick Leister - Himself
Frank Atkinson - Railway Porter
Eamonn Andrews - Himself
Gilbert Harding - Himself
Carole Carr - Herself
Josephine Douglas - Herself
= Cameo/Uncredited cast
=Fred Griffiths - Billingsgate Porter
Victor Harrington - Man at Wilcot Priory
Philip Latham - Reporter
Jim O'Brady - Billingsgate Porter
= Production
=The factory scene was in fact Shepperton Studios, with many of the studio buildings, including its larger sound stages, forming the factory backdrop.
Reception
According to Kinematograph Weekly the film performed "better than average" at the British box office in 1959.
References
External links
Left Right and Centre at IMDb
NY Times Film Review
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