A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
Sally Ann Howes
Jennifer Peters
Gordon Jackson
Jock Melville
Basil Radford
The Mechanical Type
Naunton Wayne
James Robertson Justice
Arthur Peters
Sonia Holm
Angela Carew
Nigel Buchanan
Roy Fairfax
Joyce Barbour
Aunt Mab
Campbell Cotts
John Fairfax
Cyril Chamberlain
Johnnie
Julia Lang
Carole Saunders
Percy Walsh
Editor, Evening Comet
Oliver Burt
Editor, Morning Sun
Kenneth More
Police Sgt. 'Bonzo'
Humphrey Lestocq
Radio Commentator
Vincent Ball
Hero in cinema sequence
Anne Valery
Heroine in cinema sequence
Michael Goodliffe
McPherson
Michael Balfour
Crook (uncredited)
John Boxer
Pub Landlord (uncredited)
Fred Griffiths
Truck Driver (uncredited)
Sam Kydd
Railway Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Arthur Lowe
Archibald (uncredited)
Jack May
Newspaper Seller (uncredited)
William Mervyn
Cinema Manager (uncredited)
Douglas Seale
Jeweller's Assistant (uncredited)
André van Gyseghem
Ex-Editor of Evening Comet (uncredited)
Jack Vyvyan
Hotel Porter (uncredited)
Patrick Waddington
Airline Director (uncredited)
Michael Ward
Hairdressers' Manager (uncredited)
Michael Barry
Director
Basil Thomas
Writer
T. J. Morrison
Donald B. Wilson
Producer
Dec 29, 2025
Nov 15, 2013
Apr 21, 2017
Nov 15, 1999
Dec 1, 2023
Jul 29, 2017
Oct 11, 2013
Mar 9, 2024
Aquila Pictures
United Kingdom
English
