- Source: Press for Time
Press for Time is a 1966 British comedy film directed by Robert Asher and starring Norman Wisdom. The screenplay was written by Eddie Leslie and Wisdom, based on the 1963 novel Yea Yea Yea, by Angus McGill. It was partly filmed in Teignmouth in Devon. It was the last film Wisdom made for the Rank Organisation.
Plot
Norman Shields is a newspaper seller in London, a job organised for him by his grandfather, the Prime Minister. After causing chaos. he is found a new job as reporter on a newspaper in the fictional seaside town of Tinmouth (partly filmed in the real seaside town of Teignmouth). The newspaper owner, an MP, has ambitions to become a junior minister and so goes along with the Prime Minister's 'request'.
During his time in Tinmouth, the well-meaning Norman gets himself into all sorts of trouble whilst reporting, such as starting an argument at a council meeting which develops into an all-out fight between members. He later becomes the reporter for the entertainment section of the newspaper, covering a beauty contest which his girlfriend Liz wins. They later return to London together, leaving a more politically settled Tinmouth behind.
Cast
Norman Wisdom as Norman Shields / Emily, his mother / Wilfred, his grandfather (the P.M.)
Derek Bond as Major R.E. Bartlett
Derek Francis as Alderman Corcoran
Angela Browne as Eleanor Lampton
Tracey Crisp as Ruby Fairchild
Allan Cuthbertson as Mr. Ballard (Attorney General)
Noel Dyson as Mrs. Corcoran
Peter Jones as Robin Willoughby (photographer)
David Lodge as Mr. Ross (editor of the Tinmouth Times)
Stanley Unwin as Mr. Nottage (Town Clerk)
Frances White as Liz Corcoran
Michael Balfour as Sewerman
Tony Selby as Harry Marshall (reporter for the County Chronicle)
Michael Bilton as Councilor Hedge
Norman Pitt as Councilor Quilter
Hazel Coppen as Granny Fork
Totti Truman Taylor as Mrs. Doe Connor
Toni Gilpin as P.M.'s secretary
Gordon Rollings as Bus Conductor
Imogen Hassall as Suffragette (uncredited)
Helen Mirren as Penelope Squires (uncredited)
Reception
= Critical
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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Relentlessly dispiriting Norman Wisdom comedy featuring the usual round of crude slapstick as the little man with the big heart pits himself against the rest of the world and wreaks havoc in his every endeavour with only a single dogged heroine to stand loyally by his side. Every situation is milked for all it has and more (Norman can hardly enter a public lavatory without emerging from the wrong side), and Wisdom duly takes his customary plunge into pathos by unwittingly delivering a plea for good-natured reason in front of his stunned tormentors. Wisdom's comedies are evidently designed to provide inoffensive fun and games for all and sundry; but even his admirers may find his impersonations (in sepia-tinted flashback) of a screaming suffragette and a stumbling octogenarian Prime Minister a trifle embarrassing."
= Box office
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It was one of the twelve most popular films at the British box office in 1967.
References
External links
Press for Time at IMDb
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